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...short, hard, bright boss. Colonel* Jimmy Carreras, 49, knocked the bung out of yet another barrel of blood: he gave Britons a fresh and frightening look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles. In three years, Hammer's remakes of Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and other items from Hollywood's library of horror classics have earned more dollars from world sales than the products of any other British moviemaker in the last decade. Cracks a Hammer executive inevitably: "We've pumped new blood into the industry...
...Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein celebrated the acquisition with an unusual whoop of pleasure: "A good case could be made for this as the finest single painting in the Legion's permanent collection...
...confident that they have stumbled on a form that will "drag people away from TV" and beat Cinerama at its own game ("Once you've seen Lowell Thomas fly round the world, you've had it"). Their wild enthusiasm is shared by San Francisco Chronicle Critic Alfred Frankenstein, who piled absolute upon absolute, and then sliced it, in his vertiginous summary of Vortex: "The result is the closest approximation to a sense of absolute infinity which I have ever experienced...
...next to the garage. When he wrote his ambitious concerto, he had scant hope that it would be played, but went ahead anyway because "I wanted to express everything I could." His "everything" proved to be quite enough for the critics. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein : "If it is all a total failure, the festival will nevertheless have been justified because it occasioned the first performance of Andrew Imbrie's Violin Concerto. It impressed me as being the most important composition of its kind since the Violin Concerto of Alban Berg...
...late movies when he began playing Pygmalion to a professionally addled Galatea from Ohio, orange-topped Dolores ("Dody") Martha Goodman, "aged 29" (real age: 43). By last week, seven months later, the comedienne that Jack built had "disenchanted" her creator, and Paar felt less a Pygmalion than a Frankenstein. "Sweet little Midwestern Dody," he snorted. "Brother! And we did it-we made...