Word: crowthers
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...grown-up is to go to a war movie and see if you jump under the seat. Clutching Bosley Crowther's condemnation to my polka-dotted dress. I rushed right over to The Dirty Dozen. I wanted to see if I could watch every last machine-gun fire, every last sock in the eye. Age doesn't make you callous, just confused about what's Right and Wrong. So when relief--a play or a novel or a movie with straight black and white characters--comes, you run to it. And since Mr. Crowther took such a tut-tut attitude...
...trend away from James Bond--in its original conception, anyway. Casino Royale, the multi-Bond self-parody, should help put an end to this whole clumsy, device-laden, technically incompetent school of films. And it should be an end that pleases just about everyone (except possibly Bosley Crowther in whom some second-rate streak of romanticism was apparently aroused by the Bond movies...
...Film Festival depends almost entirely on the output of the world's major directors, and on the highly debatable number of decent narrative films produced in a given year. The taste of the programmers is decidedly old-fashioned (the schedules proudly announced that one film was "discovered by Bosley Crowther"). Unless they are content to have history record them only as a show-case for the films of three or four great directors, the Festival committee must explore films outside of the straight-narrative form...
...associated by accident of race with those responsible for this disregard for humanity." He thereupon organized a relief drive to which whites and half-castes contributed. Government officials declared that the Bantus had "forfeited the right to sympathy" by their intransigence, denied that they needed any food, lifted Crowther's permit to enter the area. Afrikaans papers began hinting that the bishop had undertaken the food drive to "embarrass" the government. As the holder of a U.S. passport, Crowther is subject to expulsion any time the government wants to undertake such action...
...Crowther denies that his food-raising for the Bantus had any political motivation, but now his temper is up. "The church has to oppose this government," he says, "because what the church stands for and what this government stands for are totally different concepts of the doctrine...