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...compliments to Mr. Darrach for his superb article "A Religion of Film" [Sept. 20]. It leaves only one thing to be desired: the names of the young lovers in Knife in the Water. How could TIME put an attractive couple on the cover and fail to mention their names...
...should have fired Movie Critic Brad Darrach the day he slept through The Horse Soldiers and killed off John Wayne. We saw the flick, and Darrach was never again consulted...
WHEN people meet me they are always surprised," TIME'S Cinema reviewer once complained. "They expect me to be a nasty, screwed-up Scrooge-a mean, embittered person who bites children." Some Hollywood characters think he has the taste of a tarantula. But Associate Editor Henry Bradford Darrach Jr. is a meditative man of ideas who looks younger than his 42 years and feels that one of his faults as a reviewer is that "I try to find meaning behind appearance, which means that I sometimes do an injustice to a film." While he may at times seem...
While his practical art is cinema reviewing, Brad Darrach's passion is writing, a craft at which he is so meticulous that if he had time he would probably want to cut his copy in stone. He was writing stories at the age of four, poetry at 15, and at the University of Pennsylvania (A.B., 1942) he did his senior college paper on philosophy in verse. A sometime insurance investigator, schoolteacher, newspaper reporter (Providence Journal, Baltimore Sun), he came to TIME as a writer in 1945 and has been our principal Cinema reviewer for some ten years...
YEAR'S end is a time for auditing the books, reviewing the old. anticipating the new. In the spirit of the season. Cinema Critic Brad Darrach, with his usual mixture of slyness and seriousness, picks the best films of 1961, and TIME'S book reviewers make their collective judgment on the best books of the year. Another of TIME'S hardier traditions is the year-end business review. It attempts to say where we've been and where we're going. This year the review pays special note to a facet of the economy that...