Word: dahl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until the heavens are right. Dozens of stars will make no move (or movie) without calling Righter. Marlene Dietrich, whose respect for the master shot up when he correctly predicted that she would break her ankle in a studio accident, uses airplanes only when he gives the nod. Arlene Dahl, Robert Cummings, Rhonda Fleming, the Gabors, Hildegarde Neff, Adolphe Menjou, Tab Hunter, Susan Hayward, Red Skelton-all would rather pay Righter than the piper. Some use him more than others. Says Mrs. Van Johnson: "I don't ask Carroll when I should go to the bathroom, like some...
Kiss Kiss (308 pp.)-Roald Dahl-Knopf...
...Author Dahl's gallery of females includes a warmhearted landlady of Bath with gentle blue eyes and an enviable talent in taxidermy. Tiny Mrs. Foster, on the other hand, has a soft and rather silly look and shows agitation only when fearing she may miss a train or plane. Hearty Miss Roach is grand fun at country weekends, and her skill at games is evidenced by her large pink face, broad shoulders and bulging calves...
...earlier book, Someone Like Von (TIME, Dec. 28, 1953), Author Dahl specializes in the horror of normality. The eleven lethal short stories in this collection open on the most humdrum level, with neither a piece of furniture nor a part of speech out of place. Gradually, things get askew: the lovable baby begins to look peculiar; the cat sleeping in the sun opens an almost human eye; the corpse in the hospital is not quite as dead as it looks...
...hero forges onward and downward, square-jawed and indomitably prissy, his footsteps are dogged by the usual unmitigated cur (Thayer David), and loyally followed by four trite and true companions: a plucky youth (Pat Boone), a good-natured giant (Peter Ronson), a beautiful widow (Arlene Dahl) and a noble-souled duck named Gertrude. (The widow, of course, is present over the hero's most passionately prudish protests. "But madam, think!" he gasps. "The lack of privacy...