Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within a year, all the Messinas were in London and in the family business. Three of them got arrested as pimps and panders, but beat the rap, making the police hesitant to try again, for fear of being wrongly accused of persecuting innocent men. The war years were golden years for the Messinas. After 1945 they scoured the Continent for likely women-for-sale, spent lavishly to enchant their prey. Of her date with Attilio, one girl says: "For the first time in my life, I felt someone wanted me. His voice was so soft, so ingratiating. I said...
After having given the lie to the Reds' noisy protestations of good faith, the Dalai Lama appeared before a sweltering crowd of 10,000 Buddhists and, standing beneath a golden umbrella, gave them his blessing. Then, with his retinue, the Dalai Lama boarded an air-conditioned railway coach to go to the former British hill station of Mussoorie, where he will take up his residence in exile and "rest and reflect on recent events" in his crushed and suffering homeland...
...Only in America, Golden...
...that glitters is not gold, and there is a fair amount of dross in this anthology of the great comic moments of the silent films. Considered purely as entertainment, The Golden Age of Comedy proves the thesis that movies are better than ever; a few scenes of undeniable hilarity (almost all of them shown in the preview last week) are surrounded by interminable stretches of "classic" but boring sequences...
...most disappointing aspect of the film is that it dispels the illusion that there was a golden age of comedy. The high points may have been classic, the conventions legendary, the faces immortal, but even these excerpts show an astonishing puerility and lack of invention. The only nostalgic portion for the younger generation is the appearance of Will Rogers, who is able to bring wit even into the silent film...