Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps five minutes of Bedazzled's total 107-minute screentime, and those who come just for her will be disappointed. But they will see the most irreverent picture in a long time, one executed with dash, wit, and occasional dollops of bad taste. It is, of course, funny as hell...
...Hell is the source of most of the gags. In this latest variation of the Mephistopheles legend, a London short-order cook secretly in love with a waitress sells his soul for seven wishes. He eventually gets it back, but not before each wish backfires on him because he fails to specify the details...
When it comes to playing conniving old dames, Judith Anderson is matchless. So Charlton Heston found out in NBC's adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen. Though it is essentially a two-character play, Dame Judith as the queen hissing "Go to Ireland-go to hell" made it a one-woman show. Torn between pride for country and passion for the Earl of Essex (Heston), she played the tug of war with exquisite skill, slowly losing grip and, in the end, turning into a living mummy. Heston, unfortunately, seemed slightly embalmed to begin with...
...first hint of brutality and murder at the farms. Shortly after Governor Winthrop Rockefeller took office in 1967, he released a 67-page state-police prison report, ordered and then suppressed by former Governor Orval Faubus, that painted a picture of hell in Arkansas. To maintain discipline, prisoners were beaten with leather straps, blackjacks, hoses. Needles were shoved under their fingernails, and cigarettes were applied to their bodies. For the truly unregenerate, there was the "Tucker telephone," a form of electric-shock torture used by James Bruton, former superintendent of the Tucker prison farm. A prisoner was strapped...
...compulsive torpor in which nothing matters. He breaks up with his girl, vegetates, carelessly sets his room afire, goes pointlessly and without remorse to confession, commits a senseless murder, makes up lists of the names of cars that go by. His life is hallucinatory and also quite literally his hell...