Word: greatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening the program with Everybody Loves Saturday Night, Lomax rambled through a couple of Great Lakes ballads, and Range of the Buffalo, displaying the charm which contributed to his success as a folksong collector for the Library of Congress...
...Hollywood sky. They marry, but he is too busy merchandising his wife's soul to give husbandly attention to her body; as their marriage nears its third or fourth anniversary, it remains unconsummated. "There were times," muses Fonda's personal pressagent (Myron McCormick), "when the great man showed less judgment than any man in the history of the theater, with the possible exception of John Wilkes Booth...
...Great Confession. Volume II ends after Casanova has been imprisoned by the State Inquisitors (possibly for dabbling in black magic), has dramatically escaped and returned to Paris with a year's dammed-up energy...
There is no doubt that Casanova's Memoirs ranks with the great literary confessions, notably Rousseau's and Cellini's. The trouble with confessions is that the author, no matter how detached in manner, implicitly pleads for the reader's understanding. Somehow neither 20th century sociology, which might remark on the extraordinary tolerance of Casanova's era, nor 20th century psychology, which might speculate about the libertine's compulsion "to prove something," really equips the reader to understand Casanova...
...Story. The great names of American crime cross the screen like targets in a shooting gallery-Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. And despite the soul-searing domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart, the picture's documentary air is always absorbing...