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Adapting Burt Blechman's novel, How Much? into a twenty-four scene farce, Miss Hellman imparts humor and meaning to characters, who in the book are haphazardly petty and distasteful. The play examines a family who formally seem to fulfill a television version of acceptable behavior, cute foibles, happy live... and judges them substantively immoral, destructive and miserable...
...small . . . as small, that is to say, as a man his size can play anything. As the director he coaxes some entrancing episodes from Romy Schneider and a good low bit from Jeanne Moreau. And he gets more out of Tony Perkins than there is in him. This resolutely cute young man, the sweater-boy wonder of the fan-mag industry, is surely an improbable archetype of the Anxious Age; but in scene after scene Welles rolls him up like an empty toothpaste tube and squeezes till the right expression pops out of his face...
...Porter's "Kathy's Date" is slicker, moving nicely through seven scenes in six pages. Sometimes the dislogue is a bit too cute--two boys and a girl are a "sand-wich"--but the story is about wild college youth, and necessarily interesting. There's also some--a little...
...blindfolded Rosa and had the blindfold checked. Then Rosa opened a book at random, passed the fingertips of her right hand lightly over the page, and fluently read the text aloud. She did the same with a newspaper. Handed a snapshot, Rosa stroked the surface and said: "What a cute little girl with a ribbon in her hair and her face tilted upward...
Austria's Romy Schneider wants to be a jade too. She is only 24. She has a neat little nose, powder-blue eyes, and a pixy grin. She is real real cute. "God, I hate that word," she says. For years, she was repeatedly cast in German films more or less as Shirley Tempelhof, the cardboard princess. Determinedly, she has changed all that. Last week in London, dressed in tights and high black stockings, she began work in Carl Foreman's The Victors as a cabaret violinist turned whore, playfully kicking up her heels and pulling her tights...