Word: houseboats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grizzled, sly, and a bit mad, Jimson lives in a houseboat moored in a London harbor, and continues painting on a weekly dole from his old, unbelievably frail patron. His epic visions, to be painted on the walls of living rooms, in the naves of churches, on the sides of ships never turn out exactly as he would like, yet he is incontrovertibly one of the great painters of the age. If no one else knows it, he does, and he is content to wait...
...sloop, Peerless Triton, priced at $9,750, and Cape Cod Shipbuilding exhibited its 23-ft. sloop-rigged Marlin cruising sailboat, which has done well in midget ocean-racing. For those who want to use boats as homes, Evinrude motors displayed a prototype expand-at-will, fiberglass, aluminum and wood houseboat that floats on pontoons, is made up of two or more interlocking 7-ft. by 11-ft. cabins or decks that are expected to retail below $2,000 per pair...
...Variety's listing of Hollywood's top ten moneymakers for November: 1) In Love and War (20th Century-Fox), 2) Houseboat (Paramount), 3) The Last Hurrah (Columbia), 4) South Pacific (Magna), 5) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 6) Gigi (M-G-M), 7) Party Girl (M-G-M), 8) Windjammer (De Rochemont), 9 The Defiant Ones (U.A.), 10) Home Before Dark (Warner...
...Houseboat (Paramount), according to the advancemen, is "a story of Togetherness," a warm, human comedy of American family life, written with "true realism." Father (Gary Grant) is "charming and debonair"-but unfortunately he has been away from home for several years. Mother is rich and beautiful-but unhappily she is a bad driver and gets killed in a car crash. The children (Charles Herbert, Mimi Gibson, Paul Petersen), as the scriptwriters seem to think, are all that any American parent could hope to have-"carefree, gay, and at times in need of psychiatric care...
Guinness's script is reasonably faithful to Cary's story-what story there is. Gulley Jimson, a gutter genius who lives in a rotting houseboat on the Thames and has painted some of the most outrageously great pictures of his generation, is released from Wormwood Scrubbs prison, where he has just spent a month on charges of "uttering menaces"-he had threatened to cut out his patron's liver, or something of the sort. He trots over to the nearest pub, puts the bite on the barmaid (Kay Walsh), a middle-aged drab with a face...