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...Gunned down by the shady doctor, a dying thief tells them that he was trying to lift $500,000 stashed in a wall safe. The cops persuade themselves that ill-gotten gains might as well line the pockets of two hard-working law officers, and conspire to do some Cotten-pickin' after hours. Their moonlighting ends in a mock-Shakespearean finale. While Montalban overacts outrageously, Ford fires bullets along with a somewhat more lethal barrage of words, words, words. "It isn't the money," intones Ford. "It never is. It's people. The things they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mortality Plays | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...seemingly innocuous conversation marked a significant victory for the younger Bronfman, who looks something like Joseph Cotten did 20 years ago. He has long wanted to put out mixed drinks in the bottle; but Bronfman the elder argued that it was difficult or impossible to make a bottled cocktail taste as it should. Now Edgar says that Seagram has solved the problem: it has discovered methods of using fresh, whole-fruit juices instead of extracts, and of preventing the vermouth in the mixes from losing flavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Bronfman's Private Stock | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...fellow, scarcely seen on the screen, who is presumably worthy of her favors. Phil Silvers extols Pream. Mamie van Doren, with a kind of exactitude of casting, appears in a $39.98 dress covered with glittering beads for a Los Angeles discount house. She also works for Aqua Velva. Joseph Cotten discusses the miracle of Bufferin, and so does Arlene Francis, for which each was paid $50,000. Imogene Coca appears for Armstrong Cork. Louis Jourdan, surprisingly, appears for Prell Shampoo. The Lustre-Creme seraglio has included Jill St. John, Juliet Prowse, Jeanne Crain, Jane Powell, Sandra Dee and Stella Stevens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Selling Point | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, and Jean Peters in Niagara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 1, 1963 | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

Playwright Hayes writes the kind of dialogue that turns English prose into watered stock. At one point, Cotten's wife says quiveringly to her husband: "The ground's shaking under us all, Julian.'' What she means is the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Watered Stock | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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