Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only mockup builders and draftsmen to turn the Smith brainstorms into blueprints, for Smith has always been his own idea man. His most lasting innovation was the development of mobile scenery: his choreographed ballroom stopped the show in the midst of My Fair Lady. But Smith has never been criticized for scene stealing. He just takes them when they are there for the taking. In a viable writer's show like The Odd Couple, Smith abstemiously designs "a set no one will ever notice." It is primarily in musicals with undernourished books that he lets fly. Prime examples: Camelot...
...World War II, M.O.T. was being shown regularly in nearly 10,000 theaters in the U.S., 5,000 abroad. Its passing from the cinema scene in 1951 was widely lamented in the world's press. New York Times Critic Bosley Crowther found it "a shade ironic that, in these critical times, the film most watchful of the onward march of history should itself be compelled to march off." The popular series, he said (correctly), "bows to screen economics...
Born. To John Osborne, 35, Britain's still somewhat Angry Young Man (Look Back in Anger, Luther); and Penelope Conner Osborne, 31, former London film critic: their first child, a daughter; in London...
Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and leading critic of U.S. involvement in South Vietnam, will speak at 3 p.m. tonight at Rindge Tech. His speech is sponsored by the Young Dems and the SDS, who will greet him at Logan Airport...
...time, Truffaut was the sternest critic on Cahíers du Cinéma, the trumpet and bible of the New Wave, and he introduced Moreau to the company of serious filmmakers and intellectuals that has been her real world ever since. "I found myself among people I understood better," she recalls, "people I wanted to know, people I admired. The cinema began to mean something to me beyond simply being an actress." Moreau went back to work with a passion, and in two years she made four films, among them three of her best: Les Liaísons Dangereuses...