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...heady time to be young, famous and among the first into the era of postwar fiction. Vidal did not attend college; instead, he joined the class of Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, James Jones, John Hersey. An Alabama gamin named Truman Capote materialized, and he and Vidal were soon nightclubbing together and meeting for weekly gossip lunches amid the palms of New York's Plaza Hotel. "It was deadly to get caught in the crossfire of their conversation," recalls one who was there. "They were a pair of gilded youths on top of the world...
...learn someday that he can never hope to be a Supreme court justice, or the leading teacher in Property, or the head of the Peace Corps, or even the senior partner at Rolly, Polly, Gamin & Spinach. Perhaps it is just as well to face a kind of preliminary and inconclusive sorting out even while one is in law school, for this may make it easier to face a sorting out that he confronts all through his life in a competitive profession and a competitive world...
...dancer assoluta of the U.S. musical stage. She moves to the impulsive music of instinct as a child laughs and a dolphin leaps. She is Terpsichore's darling and yet fortune's foil. She is a wistful waif out of a Chaplin two-reeler, a Broadway gamin skipping along the harsh pavements of defeat with perky gallantry, one of nature's eternally winning losers. Verdon is verdant, and it is lucky that all is well with her, for all is not so well with her musical...
...KNACK. As the gamin up for grabs in a town house occupied by three offbeat British bachelors, Rita Tushingham shines through the sight gags in Director Richard Lester's (A Hard Day's Night) frantic, frequently hilarious version of the New York-London stage...
...Shaped Room marks Leslie Caron's successful transition from gamin to grownup. Her love scenes with hawk-faced Tom Bell are vivid; her way of mumbling silently to herself in moments of despair evokes such heartbreak that viewers will want to hug her and say, there, there, everything will be all right. There is a taste of Honey and an aftertaste of Anger about The L-Shaped Room that give it an honorable place among British slice-of-life films...