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...opposition between good and bad. Because it doesn't, it is good drama and a subtly disturbing social commentary. The film is set on a ranch in contemporary Texas, and it centers around the battle between Hud and his father Homer (Melvyn Douglas) for the allegiance of Hud's cousin (Brandon de Wilde). Homer's honesty is tied up with his idea of the dignity of work. His cynical son values money and physical pleasure. The temptation to turn Hud into a pious little morality play must have been strong; fortunately it was resisted...
...bridge passages and interpolations, Co-Adapter Barton went back to Shakespeare's own source books-the Chronicles of Holinshed, Hall and Grafton. The Observer's Kenneth Tynan observed that the production "managed to reanimate petrified forests of genealogy so that within half an hour one knows which cousin is on whose uncle's brother's side." Barton, whose past efforts range from the successful Hollow Crown of the past Broadway season to an abortive dramatization of Les Liaisons Dangereuses called The Art of Seduction, made no effort to emulate Shakespeare's unmatchable imagery...
...Careys get the boot when their mysterious absentee landlord discovers that they have been living rent-free in his house all summer? Such a turn of events is unthinkable, and sure enough, nobody thinks of it. Instead, everybody has wholesome fun. Sam, the comic sheep dog, scares prissy Cousin Julia (Deborah Walley) into a conniption; Little Brother cons the barber into shearing off his Buster Brown bangs; there is a lemonade party and a punch-and-pumpkin Halloween housewarming. Burl Ives pipes The Ugly Bug Ball, and a peaceable bestiary of beavers, owls, foxes, deer, spiders, crickets and caterpillars simultaneously...
...Born Princess of Hanover, Frederika is a granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II (and a great-great-granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, which also makes her a British princess and a third cousin of Queen Elizabeth). When Frederika was a year old, her family moved from Germany to Austria, where she spent most of her childhood. As a girl, she supposedly belonged to a Hitlerite youth group. In school in Italy during her late teens, at a time when three of her brothers served in the Wehrmacht, she was heard to defend Nazi Germany. That is about the only...
...chemise family is a closely knit group. Fashion-conscious females who climbed out of the sack only a short while ago now find themselves climbing right back into the sack's first cousin, the shift. Already a slender trend as winter waned, the shift really switched into high with the summer solstice. On beaches from Maine to Malibu, lissome Loreleis clad in the latest two-piece bathing suits arranged themselves across the sand, apparently to ponder such girth-shaking questions as: How is a girl going to look her best when she isn't looking her barest? Thus...