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...woman he really wants is Gilian Prosper (Salome Jens), a sex witch who "ignites without satisfying." None of the love affairs in But for Whom Charlie are particularly satisfying, and it would take a Syntopi-con to cross-reference their capricious complexity. What is satisfying is a foxy grandpa of a one-shot novelist, Brock Dunnaway, wittily played by David Wayne. A gadfly of sanity, Brock mocks the impotent heroes of modern drama, the internationale of homosexuals ("the homintern") and the "moment of truth" cultists...
...loose in its socket, and he made sucking motions with his mouth as if chewing thumbtacks." » Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "Bulbous nose, dolorous eyes, tight lips . . . like a punchinello whose feelings have been wounded." » Adlai Stevenson: "The round head of a plump, warmhearted, paternal grandpa ... a man who laughs easily while his eyes remain staring like a couple of Andromeda nebulae." » Neville Chamberlain: "The Secre tary Bird, which you may watch at the zoo walking back and forth on stiff legs with an expression of honest purpose on its face...
Elmer Leopold Reizenstein grew up in Manhattan in a family of decent-hearted intellectual ciphers who owned no books. His mother smothered him in a cocoon of maternal affection; his father, an epileptic, mainly embarrassed the boy. But there was Grandpa, who took him to plays at the German Theater in Irving Place at an early age, and Uncle Will, who offered to slip him the money for his initial excursion into...
...baseball's alltime great, Ty Cobb, who died in 1961. But if there is another "Georgia Peach" ripening, baseball scouts are too late to pick him. Bidding for grid fame instead, young Cobb, a halfback, has signed for a football grant-in-aid at Georgia Tech. Would Grandpa approve? Sure enough, says Charlie, recalling a long-ago story of the day Ty paid a visit to the eleven at Vanderbilt U.: "He put on the pads and made a touchdown the first time he got the ball...
...Neal, Douglas, and de Wilde-are so good that they might well form the nucleus of a cinematic repertory company. The point of the picture is as dry and nihilistic as a Panhandle dust storm. Once, when Douglas is berating his son, de Wilde asks: "Why pick on Hud, Grandpa? Nearly everybody around town is like...