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...good old days when Pauline Kael's proficiency and reputation as grande dame of film criticism was at a higher level than today. Everybody panned Bonnie and Clyde, Kael came out and gave it a rave, and one by one, gradually, the critics changed their line. Maybe by some freak of nature one of the rare black-and-white prints will appear for this showing--the period stuff looks much better in two colors. Directed by Arthur Penn, with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway...
What is interesting is the freak show, the long line of grumpy midgets, washed-out showmen, and childishly cruel, empty-headed blondes seeking to fill the vacuity of their existence with rich and "devilishly" handsome men. The performances in the film are on the whole superb. Burgess Meredith is excellent as Harry, Faye's father, who has come to Los Angeles after a long career on the vaudeville circuit, now reduced to selling bogus cure-alls door-to-door to the indifferent and openly contemptuous rich. He is the compulsive actor, always "on", even in the midst of his death...
...WERE UP early the next morning and the road looked bad and slow. Finally a battered old tank slowed down--stalled to a standstill--and we were on our way, for at least a couple of hundred miles. Our driver was a squat, hairy toothless Canadian freak. He laughed like a leprechaun--in great volumes of uncontagious cackles--and he cursed his car at every knock. He wouldn't put it over 50 mph and the hard-iron hills of Nevada clanked by slowly. Huge white letters were carved into the hills--the only signs to tell one town from...
...Harvard lights bounced back from their freak loss at Navy last week with an easy seven-second victory over Princeton and Yale on the Charles yesterday to win the Goldthwatte...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum finally, last weekend, after months of preparation and excited anticipation on behalf of everyone who'd seen their notices pasted up all over the Fogg, opened an exhibit of Eucharistic Vessels of the Middle Ages. If you're a middle ages freak, the show is fantastic. The vessels--chalices, monstrances, patens--are made of silver, copper gilt, Ivory and enamel, and are sumptuous and beautiful. The purpose of the show is to explain the relation of these objects to theology and liturgy in the middle ages. If you're at all interested in that, it's great...