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...GREEK LOVER Jimmy Skouras, played by Conrad Janis, is the only character who seems like a real person. He is amiable and sentimental and would probably make a very good waiter. Within the barrenness of the acting around him, he somehow manages to exude love for Fabray. But, her inabilities prevent much semblance of affectionate interaction between...
Lord Jim. A big budget, shot-on-location epic adaptation starring Peter O'Toole. Effective as an adventure story about a hard-to-figure guy, but the excitement of Richard Brook's film is not the excitement of Conrad's novel, and the intelligence of the novel is missing altogether...
Casablanca. Bogart gazing emptily over his bourbon, while Dooley Wilson, as Sam, plays a little something of his own--Rick's smoky Club American where Clause Rains wins at roulette, where Crande arrival earns Sam's state--Petter Lorre's escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue Parrot, Conrad Veidt. Bogart and Bergman and a lighthouse. It's the best melodrama, with unforgettable mood and many great characterizations. Director Michael Curtiz integrated all the sentiment, all the style, to make a movie to be seen a dozen times...
Radio Hanoi reported that a camp holding American prisoners was struck. The State Department apologized to Poland for the reported sinking of the freighter Josef Conrad and the killing of three seamen. One Soviet and one Chinese vessel were also said to have been damaged, along with some foreign embassies. "The way things are going," said one disillusioned State Department official, "we'll hit the cathedral in Hanoi on Christmas Eve." At week's end, however, the White House indicated that there would be at least a one-day bombing halt over Christmas...
...glow of fame wears off, some astronauts have found it painful to slip back into anonymity. "You know, the honeys stop doing handstands when you walk into a room, that sort of thing," says Mike Collins, who is personally pleased to be free of that artificial lifestyle. Adds Pete Conrad, Apollo 12's ebullient commander: "Who is a bigger bore than a former college football player who bends your ears about all those touchdowns he scored...