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Japan, having had a fling at making its own westerns (starring Jo Shishido, whom studio admen modestly call the "third fastest gun in the world"-after Gary Cooper and Alan Ladd), is still watching 20 U.S.-made western serials on television. In two glorious years, though, Nikkatsu studios turned out nearly 30 eastern westerns, starting with The Quickdrawer and finally losing heart with Mexican Vagabond this year. Mexico was the nearest Nikkatsu dared come to the real thing. Said a studio spokesman: "We have too great respect for American cowboys to invade the real wild West...
Lolita, as Sue Lyon impersonates her, could be 17, which is ancient for mymphets. As a result, James Mason's obsession with her seems like just one last pathetic middle-aged man's fling. Peter Sellers saves the scenes he steals...
Lolita, as Sue Lyon impersonates her, could be 17, which is ancient for nymphets. As a result, James Mason's obsession with her seems like just one last pathetic middle-aged man's fling. Comic Cut-up Peter Sellers saves the scenes he steals...
Exam period continued; the weather got gentler; the riverbanks became more crowded. Soon the stage was set for what was to be the last, and most romantic, undergraduate fling of the year--the elephant race. It all began out in California, where the Dean of newly founded Orange County State College gave his students a model constitution to use for reference anytime they wanted to start a new extracurricular organization. He made the dummy constitution, just for laughs, in the form of a charter for an elephant racing club...
Chosen Identity. In one fictional fling, Baldwin has tried to unburden himself of all his feelings about racism and homosexuality, about the cacophony of despair and misunderstanding that he believes America to be. But in Another Country this is projected on a wholly inadequate fictional frame: six characters in search of love and self-knowledge in a Dostoevskian substratum of Greenwich Village. Each has been chosen as a representative of melting-pot America. Negro Rufus Scott, a jazz musician from Harlem, has never been able to learn his identity as a man because he could never forget his identity...