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...rock 'n' roller, sums up for the defense: "You can't call any music immoral. If anything is wrong with rock 'n' roll, it is that it makes a virtue out of monotony." For the prosecution, the best comment comes indirectly from Actress Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday: It's just not couth, that...
...Oscar" Nominations (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Presented for the Motion Picture Academy by William Holden, Judy Holliday, Edmond O'Brien, Celeste Holm...
...this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." In that criticism, he has not spared his own race, ranging from the failure of Negro novelists to capture in print "any of the joy of Louis Armstrong or the really bottomless, ironic and mocking sadness of Billie Holliday" to the viciousness of anti-Semitism in Harlem. As for the future of black-white relations in the U.S.: "One's only got to look back to see that, though we certainly have cause for shame, we have, equally, cause for pride...
...borrowed the intense care for the lyrics, and a few of those bathtub sonorities the microphone takes so well. From Tommy Dorsey's trombone he learned to bend and smear his notes a little, and to slush-pump his rhythms in the long dull level places. From Billie Holliday he caught the trick of scooping his attacks, braking the orchestra, and of working the "hot acciaccatura"-the "N'awlins" grace note that most white singers flub...
Itch is beautifully mounted in De Luxe-color CinemaScope, and Marilyn Monroe's eye-catching gait is more tortile and wambling than ever. She also displays a nice comedy touch, reminiscent of a baby-talk Judy Holliday. After listening to a Rachmaninoff concerto, Marilyn gets real comic conviction into her voice when she decides it must be classical music "because there's no vocal." Tom Ewell brings the expertise of long familiarity to his part of the agonized husband, but Director Wilder has let several of Ewell's monologues go on a shade too long. In minor...