Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impotence (The Sun Also Rises), homosexuality (Compulsion), and a man who was crazy about elephants (The Roots of Heaven). In Crack in the Mirror, a murder meller made in Paris, Zanuck introduces a daring economy measure: by assigning two roles to each of his principal players (Orson Welles, Juliette Greco, Bradford Dillman), he gets six actors for the price of three. Unhappily, since there is no real reason in the story why three characters should look like three others, the customers spend so much time wondering who's who that they may stop caring what's what...
...characters are arranged in two crudely congruent triangles. In the first, a back-street belle (Greco) shares her bed and board with a dirty old man (Welles) because he supports her illegitimate children. But now and then she likes a little excitement (Dillman) on the side. When the old man gets jealous, the young lovers strangle him, meat-saw the remains into portable pieces, and are caught when they try to dump the evidence at a construction site...
...this point the first triangle intersects the second, which is composed of a greying eminence (Welles) of the trial courts, his svelte young mistress (Greco), and her secret preference (Dillman), who happens to be the old man's legal assistant. The assistant is of course assigned to defend the meat-saw murderess, and after running around in triangles for an hour or so, the script comes at last to the predictable courtroom climax in which an awful lot of poetic justice is noisily done...
Thurs., April 7 Revlon Revue (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Co medians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding lead a pub crawl through Manhattan. Ob served en route: Singers Peggy Lee and Felicia Sanders, Dancer Jose Greco...
...entitled Woman in Blue, is the donation of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, who are notable collectors of modern art. The woman was obviously posed in a chair, but she is painted so that she seems to stand parallel to the wall, in a manner reminiscent of El Greco's Fray Hortensio Felix Paravicino. The intricate composition contrasts the arabesques on the left side of the canvas with the straighter verticals on the right, and is painted in a startingly original color scheme, full of blues, lavenders, and canary yellow. This is major Picasso and an important addition...