Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought fame to his church (which sometimes attracted as many as 25,000 worshipers in a day) and celebrity status to its pastor. One day, emerging from a "skin-movie" house, where he had gone to administer last rites to a stricken Roman Catholic, he was scolded by a fellow New Yorker: "Father, you're the fellow trying to close these theaters, and here you are coming out of a dirty show...
...lately been losing his running battle against vice as well as his advancing years. Pornography and prostitution, both female and male, are flourishing in Times Square as never before. His night patrols have become far less frequent. "Once the policeman was respected," laments McCaffrey. "Now, if he tells a fellow to move on, the fellow asks, 'Why should I?' " McCaffrey also decries "the awful changes in the church-young priests leading civil disobedience, going to jail, burning draft cards." Last week, weary and dismayed, he packed his bags and headed for clean suburban retirement in New Jersey. Taking...
...this attention to a film's entire environment "that distinguishes Pauline Kael, 49, from her fellow critics. Movies are no peripheral affair for her but the most interesting fact of her life. "They move so fast into the bloodstream," she says. For this reason, she does not lightly suffer actors who give less than their all. "He seems more eccentric than heroic," she wrote of Marlon Brando's performance in Mutiny on the Bounty. "He's like a short, flabby tenor wandering around the stage and not singing; you wonder what he's doing there." She described Dirk Bogarde...
...Yorker last winter. She has brought out two books of collected criticism, Lost It at the Movies and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Though she is now considered one of the country's top movie critics, Miss Kael still feels ill at ease in the East and lacks rapport with fellow intellectuals in Manhattan. Not that she always makes things easy for them. She is even racier in her talk than in her writing, and does not hesitate to correct someone's erroneous ideas about a movie. A chain-smoker, she exhibits that edge of insecurity of the almost emancipated woman...
...discerning reader will pick up information on her friends, boy friends, ex-husbands (three), her 19-year-old daughter Gina, not to mention her feelings about other critics, which border on the unprintable. In her review of Hud, the footloose, amoral rancher played by Paul Newman, she berated her fellow reviewers for considering Hud a bad sort. To make the point that he was pretty typical, she compared him to her own father, who, she said, also rebelled against authority and committed adultery, yet remained pleasantly "democratic in the Western way that Easterners still don't understand...