Word: ghouls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the meticulousness of a ghoul in a catacomb, he establishes his heroine Rosemary as a lapsed Catholic. Her story begins when she and her ambitious actor-husband, Guy, take up residence in the Bramford, a prestigious and fabled apartment house on the West Side of Manhattan-a place obviously modeled after the proud, gloomy old Dakota, on Central Park West. One of the fables of the Bramford concerns the prevalence of witches there...
Three more aging Labor M.P.s are also ailing, including critically ill Frank Hayman, 70, who was elected from a constituency in Cornwall last fall by the distinctly thin margin of only 2,926 votes. The sick list is a constant topic for "the ghoul school" of Tory strategists, who point out that 80 of Wilson's M.P.s are over 60, and add that since he is bound to wind up a minority Prime Minister by death or accident anyway, he might as well resign now. Laborites sometimes sound as though they were telling sick jokes in Whitehall. When they...
They tune in to watch The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ("such good evil," says a North Carolina viewer), The Rogues ("the best flick on the eye"), The Fugitive ("Fuge" to friends), Shindig or Hullabaloo ("the horny hours"), and horror shows (called "ghoul spools" at Harvard to distinguish them from wild parties). One Rad-Cliffie is the head of a Bullwinkle the Moose fan club, and at Stanford, "Bugs Bunny really causes a lot of comment-there's a lot to say about Bugs Bunny...
Choicest holdover from Jane is Bette Davis, unabashedly securing her claw-hold as Hollywood's grande-dame ghoul. As Miss Charlotte, Bette rummages through the psyche of a Southern belle who first appears, already acting a teeny bit strange, one memorable evening in 1927. During a ball, someone slips out to the summer house and takes a cleaver to Charlotte's married lover, who has just jilted her. First John's right hand is lopped off, then his head, never to be seen again. Anyway, not for 37 years...
Died. Peter Lorre, 59, a squat, morose Hungarian actor with a heart of ghoul, who first chilled spines as the psychopathic child killer in the German classic M, moved to Hollywood in 1934 to take such varied roles as Mr. Moto and a passport racketeer in Casablanca, in more than 80 movies was chiefly famed for his bug-eyed, nasal-voiced mastery of menace and the macabre; of a stroke; in Hollywood...