Word: huston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visiting an old friend-Director John Huston-during the filming of The Misfits last summer, the green-eyed, blonde Manhattan matron was suddenly beckoned to by Star Clark Gable. "You," he ordered. Huston's visitor was promptly hired as an extra, made her movie debut in an opening-scene kiss with Gable. The role was just another chapter in the multi-chaptered life of Marietta Peabody Fitzgerald Tree, 43, a decorative, deserving Democrat who last week became the U.S. representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. To fellow Boston Brahmins, Marietta is the granddaughter of Groton School Founder Endicott...
...John Huston's direction has given the film sufficient plasticity to pour it into any definition of farce, but let us settle for Fowler's: "Farce raises laugher by the outrageous absurdity of the situation or characters exhibited." Which doesn't yet bring us to Gina Lollobrigida (she comes later), but provides a good excuse for a summary of the situation...
...disburdened of Miller's words, resolve themselves in fluent and exciting action. Symbolically, the image of innocence ruthlessly hunted down and indifferently converted to dog meat makes a shattering comment on an aspect of modern life. But the rest of the picture-despite skillful work by Director John Huston-is rambling, banal, loaded with logy profundities ("I can't make a landing," sobs a drunken pilot, "and I can't get up to God, either"). Perhaps the most suitable comment on the whole business is made by one of Scenarist Miller's characters...
...Figure} Kurnitz based on a novel (A Gift from the Boys} by Columnist Art Buchwald. But as far as entertainment is concerned, Package contains only what is known in show business as a bomb Director Donen clearly intended to tell a shaggy-dog story the way John Huston did in his hilarious Beat the Devil but unfortunately, Donen's dog turns out to be all bark and no bite. The hero (Brynner) 'is a big-time hood deported from the U.S. to his native Greece and confined by the Greek government to a small Aegean island...
Members of the panel joined in urging immediate international agreement about disarmament, and the abolition of secrecy regarding CBR research. In addition to Luria, the panelists were Dr. J. Huston Westover, executive secretary of the Friends Medicals Society, Henry T. Yost, associate professor of Biology at Amherst College, and Lee R. Wilcox, member of the Applied Physics Department...