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Jules and Jim. Two young men and a girl love, laugh and write poetry in Paris 50 years ago, in a film that is a clutter of inconsequence transformed by imagination, as a trash heap is transformed by moonlight...
...that, he is still close to the top of the Hollywood heap. His record company grossed $4,600,000 last year, and the range of movie roles that await him is broad and reassuring. His friends insist that there is no new Sinatra, that the new innocent abroad is only the old Sinatra with the old resentments stripped away. And overseas, the tour's inspiration matters less than the good it does...
...novel by the late Henri Pierre Roché, now made into a gay, grotesque little movie by France's François Truffaut (The 400 Blows). Charming, sick, hilarious, depressing, wise: the film is an exercise in contradiction, a clutter of inconsequence transformed by imagination as a trash heap is transformed by moonlight...
Back to Beginnings. It takes a heap o' writin' to use that sort of material in this day and age on anything more pretentious than a TV show, but 71 -year-old Conrad Richter has been making quiet, honest novels out of it for 25 years. The Town, part of his trilogy on frontier life in the Ohio territory (The Trees, The Fields, The Town), won a Pulitzer Prize...
...sheer, outstanding inability, Lieutenant Hutton quickly rises to the top of the nut heap. He is a go-day-wonder-how-he-made-it who begins the war as a casualty (he tries to catch a baseball with his ear), continues it as a sad sack (he reports for duty by hitting the wrong pedal, ramming his jeep through the side of a building, parking it smartly beside the C.O.'s desk), but ends it as a hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just...