Word: expresso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them away from the gaze of press and public. One evening last week he slipped away from the White House for a three-hour dinner cruise down the Potomac on the presidential yacht PatrickJ .; the identity of his companions was kept secret. He watched two movies, Tiger Bay and Expresso Bongo, in the White House projection room. And still another night he ordered up a batch of mystery novels for his bedtime reading (the President also recently reread Alfred Duff Cooper's Talleyrand, and declared to friends: "It's a great book"). Finally, at week...
...arts promises a return to pre-eminence this year under a new artistic director, Lord Harewood, 38, music-critic cousin of Queen Elizabeth. With John Osborne's Luther (see above), he will present the Bristol Old Vic's version of Lawrence Durrell's Sappho and Wolf (Expresso Bongo) Mankowitz' adaptation of Friedrich Duerrenmatt's Frank V, described as the "musical history of a private bank." Then there is also the famed Edinburgh "Fringe"-small, independent productions that sprout by the dozen (about 60 last year), have no official connection with the festival, and often include...
...Expresso Bongo is one of those movies that makes a Significant (though not particularly original) Point at the expense of characterization, dialogue, and plot. Through a series of disturbing scenes, it shows how popular "artistes"--and more important the people connected with them--contemptuously denigrate the public's taste. If "mass values" are the problem, though, Expresso Bongo does little to improve them...
...good to see that people are still concerned about mass values, and no doubt Val Guest (who directed the movie) and Wolf Mankowitz (who wrote it) are serious in attempting to deal with an unquestionably important problem. But in Expresso Bongo they are caught in the same mire as their main characters...
...pics become available for his use 21 days after they close their Boston run. The extra-price stuff (like "Psycho" or "Expresso Bongo") does not hit the Square until after a subsequent regular-price Boston run. Then, after the usual 21-day blackout, it slithers into the U.T., much to the distress of those who have seen it in Boston for more cash...