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...Look Homeward, Angel] to win two Critics Circle awards in one season. He was also a walking contradiction to his own observation that "any man who becomes a producer is a damned fool." Two Bloomgarden hits of 1955 and 1956, The Diary of Anne Frank and The Most Happy Fella-also Critics Circle award winners-still have road companies going strong. "Together, the four shows net over $40,000 a week," grins Bloomgarden, "but, of course...
...target and should therefore have a relatively low priority. In 1957, for example, Wilson's research and development cuts took the Army down from $596 million to $327 million, the Navy from $666 million to $505 million ("That's a lotta money to spend on research, young fella," said Wilson to a Navyman) and the Air Force from $1.2 billion to $622 million. Said a top Army general last week: "Research is the goose which lays the golden egg. Wilson wanted the egg, but he didn't want to feed the goose." As a result the Soviet...
...Young Don't Cry (Columbia), but Sal Mineo's lustrous brown eyes get mighty moist in this movie while he fends off all manner of ruffians, twerps and smart alecks. As a 17-year-old paragon of adolescence in a Georgia orphanage, "Big Fella" Mineo stoutly defends the "little fellas" from harm, sturdily resists the temptations and blandishments of a bevy of Bad Examples. In hammering out his selfless philosophy of life, Sal learns through bitter experience to reject the cynical green applesauce of an opportunistic main-chancer (Thomas Carlin), and to sneer at the diesel-crass plutocracy...
...said Philip. "I must confess I still don't know what sort of bird it was.'' At one point he played a record of some pidgin English. "It is a very old language," he explained, "and has to be learned. For instance, they called me 'Fella belong Mrs. Queen...
Opera's cheeriest cherub, Baritone Robert Weede, 53, euphoric title roler of the Broadway hit musical The Most Happy Fella, recalled his own slow rise in music. "Singing success must be gained too quickly nowadays," said he. His most significant case in point: bullish Movie Tenor Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza...