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...Killing (Harris-Kubrick; United Artists) announces the arrival of a new boy wonder in a business that soon separates the men from the boys. At 27 Writer-Director Stanley Kubrick, in his third full-length picture, has shown more audacity with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out of town on an exhibitors' poll. What's more, Director Kubrick made his entire movie for a price ($320,000) that would hardly pay for the lingerie in an Ava Gardner picture, with the result that The Killing seems likely to make...
After a second short, Flying Padre, fared no better, Stanley persuaded his family to put up $50,000 for a full-length feature called Fear and Desire, a story of four soldiers lost behind enemy lines. Unable to afford expensive fog machines, Director Kubrick at one point produced an illusion of fog with a California crop sprayer, almost asphyxiated cast and crew in a mist of insecticide. The picture, praised by the critics for its "visual power," was drowned in a downpour of public inattention. Killer's Kiss came next, a story about a pug and a floozy; financed...
...collected works of William Saroyan-twelve full-length plays, seven novels and some 1,500 short stories-could be sap-boiled down to a single sentence, it would read, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." In the days of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, The Time of Your Life and My Name Is Aram, Saroyan brought to this simple message an elfin charm, an infectiously wacky humor, and a flavor of childlike sweetness, as if his tales had been stolen from some happily hidden jam pot of life. But of late, the middle-aging (47) pixy...
James S. Harrison '57 was elected president of the Harvard Dramatic Club yesterday at a full meeting of the organization. At the same time, the group announced that its 100th production next fall will be a full-length performance of Hamlet...
Lilly Dache's Glamour Book [March 26] admonishes the disrobed woman to ". . . stand in front of a full-length mirror and look at yourself. Be brave, for this is going to be a shock." But what warning does she give "Husband: see also men," who stands with "hands, shaking from nervousness"? Well may Lilly stand, as your picture shows, with her right hand supporting "bulges in the wrong places," etc. I suggest she read her book and buttress the sags...