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...good roles is Buster Keaton as the old Roman who's been searching for his long lost children and keeps running through the film at the oddest moments. His face is almost as comically expressive as Mostel's. When, not hearing correctly, he says Yiddish fashion, "My daughter--a eunuch?" it becomes the best line in the film...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 1/17/1967 | See Source »

...hilarious "sitdown orgy for 40," and a bunch of top bananas: Phil Silvers cast as a pious pimp who combines worship and whoreship, Jack Gilford playing a collector of "erotic pottery," the late Buster Keaton doing a deadpan dad with a somewhat unusual problem: "My daughter is a eunuch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Erotic Errors | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...names to it all his years. "A liar, a thief, a drunkard, a traitor, a filthy-minded and salacious slut," he recorded, at 74, of a secretary fallen from his grace. The distinguished fared no better: he called Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Tribune, "a skunk, a eunuch, a missing link...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man on the Raft | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

Robert Goheen, 46, Princeton. A scholarly humanist who stakes out his positions carefully, he is a close friend of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, argues that "a university president is not a political eunuch." A past chairman of the American Council on Education, he is a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Princeton's influential Educational Testing Service. He jumped spectacularly from professor to the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education: Feb. 11, 1966 | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

White Voices, touted in publicity as an Italian-style Tom Jones, is a ribald comedy based on one long, indelicate joke about the once-celebrated castrati, the eunuch sopranos of Italy. Gelded at an early age to preserve the pitch and "whiteness" of their voices, the castrati enlivened Europe's leading salons and opera stages for most of the 17th and 18th centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unlikely Comedies | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

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