Word: greasepainted
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...Just me. Face facts-the day I donned greasepaint, a whole profession became obsolete...
Grania's problem, though she doesn't really know it is that her blood is two-thirds greasepaint. Basically she wants to love and be loved, but something about the condition of life in that confused isle has made her want to camouflage her feelings. The games she indulges in to get her man are to Grania nothing but false...
...Harrison's unsung approach to lyrics is reminiscent of My Fair Lady, but Leslie Bricusse's songs are not. As a composer, Bricusse (Roar of the Greasepaint, Stop the World) seems to have kept a wary eye on the charts, inserting flaccid pop songs whenever the action flags. In such a child-centered zoo story, the animals, of course, should be the true stars of the picture. But Director Richard Fleischer has inserted a number of special-effect monstrosities whose obvious falsity helps to destroy the mood created by the real zoo denizens. The Sea Snail is laughably...
...Says Quinn: "I may not like the son-of-a-bitch, but I've got to admit that he produces plays well and makes them work." Anthony Newley, who survived two stints with Merrick in Stop the World, I Want to Get Off and The Roar of the Greasepaint! The Smell of the Crowd, mutters grimly: "Hitler didn't die at the end of World...
...ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT-THE SMELL OF THE CROWD (RCA Victor) An other cast album laden with a children's chorus, this time a ragged and nasal group called the Urchins, who keep piping up to accompany Anthony Newley's singing and Cyril Ritchard's musical declamations. But the score, by Newley and Leslie Bricusse, has some good tunes, among them Feeling Good, sung with feeling by Gilbert Price, and Who Can I Turn To, the hit of the show...