Word: gange
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A band of comedians (Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Jack Carter and Bill Dana) fights to rescue the TV badlands from a notorious gang of cowboy heroes led by James Drury (The Virginian). Bobbie Gentry sings along with the action in "ShootIn...
...chain-gang picture has been in stir for years. Now it has turned up again, paroled as Cool Hand Luke, a close study of conditions in a Southern prison. Like its most celebrated predecessor, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Luke is the story of a simple man who falls afoul of the law and mechanically becomes destroyed by a so-called house of correction...
Buckley's hang-ups, two of the worst have been Moise Tshombe, whom Buckley thought the U.S. sold out, and Senator Thomas Dodd, whom Buckley thought the Senate sold short. "I, for one, announce," he inaccurately predicted, "the beginning of a very long period of bitterness against the gang of flagitious moralizers who conspired against a brave and simple man of distinguished public record and found him guilty by bill of attainder...
Examined closely, the story is as full of holes as a kitchen colander. Though the housewife has been sightless less than a year, she has already developed incredibly acute hearing and a sixth sense of unseen danger. Several times the gang leaves her alone long enough to call the police, the fire department or the U.S. Cavalry...
...opening act is meant to establish the idioms and manners of Eastern European Jewish life: it succeeds only in making audience and cast uncomfortable. The three batlonim, those parable-telling lay-abouts of Yiddish humor, act as though they were unrepentant members of the Gas House Gang. Timothy Hall offends especially, and all about him actors are moving too slowly and having great trouble with the foreign-sounding words. Only Howard Cutler, as Khonnon, the young student whose anguished soul is the dybbuk of the title, and Mark Ritts, as the prophetic messenger, carry off their parts. Both have voices...