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...writes the movie reviews? Over the years, TIME's Cinema section has established a tradition of sharp and witty criticism, and more readers are asking us this question. For the past two years, our principal movie reviewer has been Associate Editor Henry Bradford Darrach...
Among the many fine stylists and phrasemakers on the magazine, Brad Darrach at 34 has developed into one of the best. But when he came to TIME ten years ago, with only brief journalistic experience (on the Providence Journal and Baltimore Sun), he recalls that he couldn't put together enough good material in a week to fill the Miscellany column. And after he wrote his first film review, Darrach's senior editor returned it to him with the notation: "Sure, sure, but what was the movie about...
Since then, Darrach has written some notable Cinema covers, among them, 3-D (TIME, June 8, 1953), Lollobrigida (TIME, Aug. 16, 1954), Marlon Brando (TIME, Oct. 11, 1954), Walt Disney (TIME, Dec. 27) and Frank Sinatra (TIME...
Readers also like to quote Darrach quips back to us. A few recent favorites...
WHILE a TIME Researcher, Mary Ellen Lukas, roamed through Hoboken, searching for background material for this week's cover story on Frank Sinatra, Cinema Editor Henry Bradford Darrach Jr. was on vacation in Europe, still unaware that his first job upon returning would be to write the Sinatra story. Meanwhile, Correspondent Ezra Goodman scoured Hollywood, pursuing Sinatra himself. The West Coast chase led Goodman from Sinatra's luxurious duplex on Wilshire Boulevard through recording studios and an Italian restaurant to the singer-actor's sumptuous dressing room...