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...chorus celebrating the festival of Midsummer's Eve-were charmingly melodic, but the overall impact was blandly uncompelling. The sets, which Rorem confesses he "hates," were gingerbread concoctions totally antithetical to the spirit of the opera, and Soprano Marguerite Willauer in the title role sang with the handicap of a severe cold...
Though a plot as old as The Hill's can well be a handicap, U.S. Director Sidney Lumet (The Pawnbroker) nails the action of this spiky British drama into so taut a frame that an audience can feel every jab in the belly, taste every mouthful of dust. It is less easy to hear the dialogue, much of it delivered in accents too angry or authentic for swift comprehension. Yet the lines thrown away are scarcely missed because Lumet crowds the screen with strong, spare imagery built around the fearful mound. After a ghastly ordeal on the hill, filmed...
...second wife for the past 15 years) attired in blue satin smoking jacket and matching polka-dot ascot. His still-accented English has taken on the authority of a Charles Boyer, his pronounced limp (an old hip injury aggravated by an automobile accident five years ago) appears less a handicap than a charming idiosyncrasy. True, he no longer tears around town like a dragster in his car, and after several unsuccessful attempts at beating Jascha Heifetz, he has given up ping-pong. But he will take the orchestra on its first tour of Latin America this spring. Then he will...
...Tosmah: the $28,800 Maskette Handicap for fillies and mares; at New York's Aqueduct race track. Despite their sex, Tony Imbesi's four-year-old Tosmah, the 1964 filly champion, and Ethel Jacobs' five-year-old Affectionately, winner of $169,806 this year, are perhaps the two top thoroughbreds in the U.S. Equally weighted at 128 Ibs., they matched stride for stride practically all the way; judges needed a photo to determine that Tosmah was the winner by the narrowest of noses...
...movie's main handicap is that Director Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark) has put it together like a hobbyist assembling a model kit into an authentic reproduction of a 1908 Hupmobile, "Comedy is a science," he says. "The only way to learn a science is to study, and the only way to study is to look at what the old masters did and take from them. Race is an accumulation of dozens of the great comedy clich...