Word: humbert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humbert Foucheval (played by author Lance Morrow) stole the bread from his church's altar when he was young, and has been playing out a whole series of Mr. Morrow's fantasies ever since. His obsession is carving a mountain into an equestrian status of Crazy Horse, which represents, among other things, a desire to resurrect the noble barbarian, a wish to imprison God in stone and thus kill him, and a hope of consecrating the stone of the mountain. I know all these things, because Morrow has written them into the monologue that constitutes the last quarter...
...same bill, Peter Lorre plays a homicidal Humbert Humbert in "M," a German expressionist film that was shown here last spring. It's well worth seeing again, especially since Zero for Conduct plays with...
...could not feel "at home in the 20th century." At Silverwood, time has been stopped resolutely, circa 1870. What starts the clocks moving again and causes Ninian's downfall is a hopelessly immature, nearly illiterate 18-year-old whom he hires as his secretary. Unlike Lolita's Humbert Humbert, Ninian manages to convince himself that he is interested in the girl's mind: peering at a "modern" daub through myopic eyes, she had once by wildest mischance correctly identified a Dufy. In his passion for the girl, Ninian abandons his London art gallery, gets himself thrown into...
each of them one-and-twenty, all of them murderers, the hangman mutters: "Plenty even for Housman's verse." -A. E. Housman (Humbert Wolfe...
Director Kubrick spotted Sue in a bit part on the Loretta Young Show, had her read for the part with James Mason, who will play Humbert Humbert, decided: "She is a natural actor. Also she has a beautiful figure along ballet lines." Lolita and Sue closely resemble each other. Lolita, at 15, toward the end of the book, stands 5 ft. tall, weighs 90 Ibs.; Sue, at 14, stands 5 ft. 2 in. and weighs 102 Ibs. Sue's picture used to appear in the J. C. Penney mail-order catalogue, for which she modeled junior dresses and bathing...