Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British film leaders, alarmed over the advance of TV. Prince Philip brought soothing words. Said he at a dinner of the British Film Academy: "I don't think books have suffered much from magazine competition. I don't see why films, which are, after all, animated books, should suffer from television, which is simply an animated magazine." Later in an arduous week, the Prince scratched himself from a tiddlywinks joust to which he had been challenged by the Cambridge University team. He said with regret that he would have liked to lead his team, the Goons, but "unfortunately...
...Manhattan to ballyhoo the film version of his often-belittled, sometime-banned (still taboo in Massachusetts) bestselling (more than 8,000,000 copies) novel, God's Little Acre, earthy Novelist Erskine Caldwell hopscotched between TV appearances, radio talks and press interviews. Once an oversexed tale about Georgia crackers, the tidied-up movie version will glow with the Motion Picture Association of America's seal of purity. Says onetime Georgia Cracker Caldwell: "Why not? It's a family picture...
...plans to be "a rich man in three years," and the best way to make it, he figures, is to become "a singing actor" like Sinatra. That way, he says, staring with wide, artless eyes across the table and shooting out his moonstone cuff links, "I could make one film and Vegas and have...
...couple of concert cliches: Debussy's L'Aprés-Midi d'un Faune, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite #2. Strained through Cantelli's clear musical consciousness, the lush music flows out simply, movingly, and with none of the sudsy emotional film that so often clouds...
Wunderkind. While getting ready for his appearance this week on the Steve Allen Show, Ustinov (pronounced Youstinov) did a telecast for the Canadian Broadcasting Co., previewed a TV film on disarmament that he narrated for the U.N., squeezed in three interviews, a picture sitting, a lecture, a testimonial dinner, and a spot of home life in his East Side Manhattan apartment with his wife, Canadian Actress Suzanne Cloutier, and their two children. In between, he also cavorted through eight performances of his Ustinov-written Broadway comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, which was sagging at the box office when...