Word: epics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goes the Money. No epic hero would strap himself to a mast upon hearing this sort of thing, but it is good entertainment and it pays the bills. Edie made a little more than $150,000 last year and should do better this year, with a record album, two movies already completed (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Call Me Bwana), and two more about to be filmed ( The Yum Yum Tree and Very Important Persons). She has also been offered the lead in a production of South Pacific that is planned for Manhattan...
Szell has built his orchestra from 94 to 105 players, extended its season from 20 to 26 weeks, signed a brisk recording contract with Epic Records, and won a large new audience for his yearly tours. Associate Conductor Robert Shaw's Cleveland Orchestra Chorus has been increased to 201 members, and it is now nearly the peer of his Chorale. The orchestra's women's committee now has 1,500 members, busies itself with sternly taught courses in music appreciation, then goes out to round up contributions to fill in the orchestra's immense deficit...
Died. John Siguard ("Ole") Olsen, 70, deadpan half of that durable comic duo, Olsen and Johnson, and the shrewd box-office mind who made their vaudeville epic, Hellzapoppin, play and pay for many years; of a heart attack; in Albuquerque...
Lawrence of Arabia is a movie about an actor named Peter O'Toole. It is very much like another British movie of a few years back, which also delineated the epic struggle of an effete young draftee to rise in the Army ranks. The difficulty is that, unlike Private's Progress, Lawrence of Arabia takes itself very seriously. As a result, it is dull, four-hours long, and costs $3.00. You cannot possibly help but dislike it, if you are headstrong enough to bother seeing it; and if the wee hours do find you emerging from the Gary Theatre...
Lean is a gifted director who works with confidence at epic elevation, and in Lawrence he also works with a sensitivity to form and color that he has never shown before-it is as if the desert, like a gigantic strap of white-hot steel, had burned away a northern mist that has always obscured his vision. Time and again the grand rectangular frame of the Panavision screen stands open like the door of a tremendous furnace, and the spectator stares with all his eyes into the molten shimmer of whitegolden sands, into blank incandescent infinity as if into...