Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somehow it does not seem to matter in the early scenes that no makeup artist can change 33-year-old Larry (Flower Drum Song) Blyden into the angular, ferret-faced, 17-year-old copy boy he is in the novel's opening chapters; Blyden's lines still snarl with Sammy's hungry, terrifying drive. Nor does it matter very much that the gutter gags had to be cleaned up, that the Jewish humor is sacrificed to the self-conscious contemporary convention that seldom allows so much as a smile with a racial or religious twist. Although...
...Fair Lady still leads the musical field, with The Music Man a close second, and Redhead (Gwen Verdon up), followed by Flower Drum Song, just about rounding the box-office turn...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The network continues its impressive series of prime-time specials with another big one: What Makes Sammy Run?, Budd Schulberg's vitriolic story of a young heel on the make. With Larry (Flower Drum Song) Blyden, Barbara Rush and Sidney Blackmer. Act I, with the second coming up next week...
...major event was the American premier of The Burnt Flower-Bed, written in 1952 by the late Italian dramatist Ugo Betti. Betti has been hailed as a greater playwright than Pirandello; he is certainly not that, but he does deserve a place among the most important modern writers for the theatre. This play deals with the problem of present-day nihilism and international political diplomacy. If it did not lapse periodically into propagandistic sermonizing, it would be a masterpiece...
...Fair Lady, with Edwardian charm, The Music Man, with mid-American corn. and Flower Drum Song, with Oriental flair, make a trio of memorable musicals. Redhead cuts a nifty caper-and the fanciest footwork is Gwen Verdon...