Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North by Northwest (M-G-M). While in Manhattan shooting the early scenes of this film, Director Alfred Hitchcock grumbled that newspapers tell too many "outlandish stories from real life that drive the spinner of suspense fiction to further extremes." "Further extremes" turns out to be a point on Hitchcock's compass. Direction: North by Northwest...
...picked up every aristocratic name that the snobbish Proust dropped, and whole pages read like excerpts from the Almanack de Gotha. Relatively free of footnotes, the book is really one gigantic footnote to Proust's masterpiece. When he is not playing the elaborate chess game of fact v. fiction, Author Painter does communicate his passionate curiosity about Proust, and he draws a lively portrait of the sick, sick, sick French society that molded the Proustian sensibility...
...Tents of Wickedness, by Peter De Vries. The plot and the people may be familiar in this sequel to Comfort Me with Apples, but the parodies offer a fine panoramic view of modern fiction...
...brainchild of Barry Morse, the acknowledged first-ranking star of the Canadian stage, who is appearing this summer with the Group 20 Players. Morse describes his show as "a light-hearted look at the actor and his life, his ups and downs, troubles and triumphs--in fact and fiction, in various periods and places...
...FICTION...