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...well Goodman and his colleagues listened, see Cinema Writer Brad Darrach's "To Aristophanes & Back," beginning on page...
...have some bones to pick with your movie reviewer, Brad Darrach. My wife and I love movies, and practically supported Hollywood singlehanded through its lean years. Darrach has been spoiling pictures for us ever since he took his senior editor's advice ("Sure, sure, but what was the movie about?") so literally...
...puns in your movie reviews are not only going from Brad to worse, but are getting so heavy-handed they will probably have to be removed by a Darrach...
...Darrach's gift for words may be traced to a lineage of hereditary Scottish bards and minor English writers. Stern custodian of this heritage has been his maternal grandmother Alice Dunbar, now over 80. For grandmother Dunbar, he wrote romantic prose until he was eight, when he went off to Philadelphia's old St. Peter's (Episcopal) Choir School to sing as a boy soprano and play football in the school's historic cemetery. "I remember," he says, "catching a forward pass on Stephen Decatur's grave." At West Philadelphia High, Darrach began to compose...
...TIME reviewer, Darrach, who considers movies "not only one of the liveliest arts but one of the most important," studies the world production of pictures each week and sees at least five before he writes his reviews. Moviemakers are aware of the value of this selectivity. Said Columbia Pictures' Executive Producer Jerry Wald: "The public is more educated today and shops around for pictures. And TIME influences a great deal of that public...