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PETER: I get my licks because I approach movies on a much broader scale than just as an actor. Before, I felt stultified by the flick. You gotta hit this mark, you gotta remember which hand you pick this up in and which hand you put that down in. When I am conceiving the part, then I am the writer Dad was talking about. I have already thought about the part, so I am really doing all that thing myself. JANE: When it really works in the theater, then there is nothing more exciting than the immediate response from...
...Downey? I mean Putney Swope is a little sophomoric, but it was pretty good. I wouldn't have been embarrassed to make that flick...
...trees to seek darkness elsewhere, and pedestrians stepped neatly over rain ditches they had fallen into during the war. Only half the lights went on again, however; there was not enough power available to light the rest. Plainly, peacetime conditions would not be restored with the mere flick of a switch...
Sweden's dull-but-dirty skin flick I Am Curious (Yellow) was banned in Boston and remains banned, by a 7-1 vote of the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned a federal court decision against a censorious local tribunal. The lone dissenter was much-married Justice William O. Douglas, who emphasized that he voted as he did because he is against censorship-"not because, as frequently charged, I relish obscenity...
...rejects the men around her not because they are men, but because they do not measure up to her ideal. Her state of mind is not one of hysteria and frustration, but of wry, detached, ironic amusement, though occasionally her inability to suffer fools gladly brings out the sharp flick of her tongue. Rebecca Thompson's Hedda is an intellectual romantic. Part of her seeks out the austere companionship of fine minds; another part of her yearns for a man on horseback to sweep her off her high horse. Hedda can be revolted by things womanly, such...