Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shamed be he who thinks evil...
...nothing if not resilient, continued to face life with a moist smile, though her expression was a trifle more jaded than it was when she first emerged from the North Carolina hills and crashed Hollywood 13 years ago. Preening her finery, she allowed: "Men are necessary, definitely not evil." Trusting to her lawyers' discretion, Ava supposed that her divorce will be "on the usual grounds" (i.e., mental cruelty). Once free of each other, she and Frankie, like casual room mates, will simply pack up and go their own ways. The agreement: "He'll take what...
...intellectual Communism, of ambisextrous wingdings and nudist bridge-and-bathing parties, who could be surprised? Cuernavaca, in fact, has been called "a sunny place for shady people." Propertied residents, concerned over real-estate values, try to keep the gossip down by following the tolerant rule of see no evil, hear no evil. But recently, they have begun to hear rumors of an ugly thing new to Cuernavaca-blackmail. Stories of rich foreigners being framed on phony charges of misconduct and blackmailed for large sums soon spread to the capital. 40 miles away. Last week federal agents were in town, eagerly...
Isaacs blames newspaper editors more than reporters for the evil because "they refuse to take this seriously [or] fail to see any corrupting influences. One editor said, 'Let's preserve some of the niceties of this rugged life. Too many people have been taking potshots at Santa Claus...
...stock shots and operating on a low budget, the film goes on a foot-dragging Technicolor pilgrimage through 13th century Italy, with a side trip to the Holy Land for one of the skimpiest Crusades in filmland history. Ricardo Montalban plays the peasant hero who does battle with evil barons, cruel Saracens and assorted charmers, including Betta St. John and blonde Carolyn Jones, a graduate of TV's Dragnet. Despite the costumes, the atmosphere is more that of the Middle West than the Middle Ages, just as the plot has more in it of cops & robbers than...