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...Saturday's showing is any indication of the season that awaits the Crimson, 1987 could quickly become a distant memory.CrimsonMary L. NaberTAKE DOWN: Junior CORY COSTANZO with the help of junior JASON METAKIS lands a powerful tackle on a hapless Columbia kick returner...
When the news of the storming of the Bastille reached Versailles, the hapless Louis XVI expressed the hope that this was a mere revolt. "No, sir," replied the Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, "it's a great revolution." For the sake of the House of Windsor, we must trust that those advising the royal family at this unhappy time will also be blunt. The national outpouring of affection and grief for the "people's princess" could be dismissed as a form of collective hysteria that will die away as surely as the echo of muffled funeral bells. No tumbrels loom...
...stop gabbing about himself long enough to ask a question is worthy of Evelyn Waugh. In Across the Lake, naive young Americans look for local color in an unnamed strife-torn country that could be Guatemala. Their detachment from reality echoes Paul Bowles' brutal stories of hapless adventurers...
...find something he made. In his 89 years, Burgess Meredith directed two films: The Yin and Yang of Mr. Go was not so good; The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) was considerably better, thanks to Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, and Meredith's own turn as a hapless myopic accused of double murder. Laughton is Inspector Maigret, the portliest policeman since Orson in Touch of Evil, and Tone is Radek, his "Candide"-quoting psychopathic prey. From behind the camera (reportedly with some help from Laughton), Meredith delivers a lean, cerebral mystery with plenty of wit, and one that never pauses...
Otto Preminger needed persuading that demure Dorothy could be the heartbreaking Carmen. But there she stands, hands on svelte hips, unleashing a wonderfully womanly laugh and dazzling the hapless Joe (Harry Belafonte) by sitting down and slinging his leg over her shoulder or urging him to dry her toenails: "Blow on 'em, Sugar." Here was an adult sexuality Hollywood had rarely shown. It surfaces again in the French Tamango (1957), where Dandridge--as Aiche, the half-caste slave mistress of captain Curt Jurgens--summons a complex ferocity, connecting with Aiche's hurt as well as her love-hatred...