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Romance plays five times better than it sounds, thanks to a genuinely funny script, gorgeous locations, fine acting and direction that never wallows in sentiment. As Hill demonstrated in his similar and wonderful The World of Henry Orient (1964), he understands smart young people and knows how to cast them. Lane, a pretty refugee from Broadway's Runaways, is a completely unmannered actress who cuts to the guts of every scene; she is a major find. Though Bernard has too many punch lines and must speak in a second language, he rises to Lane's level...
...broadcast TV was only beginning to reach a large audience, and newspapers were just starting to carry listings of the times when Comedian Milton Berle and Wrestler Gorgeous George would be performing on the tube-just as newspapers and weekly TV magazines are now starting to list cable offerings. Also, though there is much dispute when cable started, 1949 may have been the year of its birth. One version is that Robert J. Tarlton, owner of a radio and TV repair shop in Lansford, Pa., could sell few TV sets because a mountain outside town blocked signals coming in from...
...front nine, which rolls majestically from the plateau on which the clapboard clubhouse rests down towards the lead grey waters of Casco Bay. Dales played gorgeous golf from tee to green. Dales, however, simply could not hole any putts on the slow bent grass greens...
...morning brings a fresh set of problems. An ore carrier called the George Stinson is downbound. Known unaffectionately as "Gorgeous George," the Stinson is a recently built 1,000-ft.-long Goliath of the lakes. Gorgeous she isn't; unmanageable she is. Says a company skipper who has been on the lakes since 1936: "Those thousand footers don't belong up here." Hall further defines the problem. "They need a lot of power to avoid getting stuck. But if they come barreling around the turns full bore, they wind up in the trees...
...showcase of lousy puns and a male kickline deals with spies in Near East opium dens and a butler who, quoting T.S. Eliot, foils a dastardly scheme to prevent forever Anglo-Saxon morality. Or something like that. The plot doesn't really matter, with all those sumptuous sets and gorgeous costumes and knock-out numbers. And those legs. At the Hasty Pudding Theater (would any decent place house this show...