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...yuks. The second act, however, goes over better. Margery Cohen's readition of "That's Him," from One Touch of Venus, is impressively suited to Ogden Nash's lyrics. Lanning runs into trouble, however, with his "September Song." His jut-jawed, toothless version is obviously patterned after Walter Huston, but comes out sounding so much like Al Jolson that you expect him to genuflect and cry out "Mammy" at the end. Cohen and Lander do a witty, sultry, perfect interpretation of Langston Hughes's lyrics from Street Scene...
...were exorcised from the film industry, Chaplin offered his voice to the choir of protest. Two years later, one of the ten, Alvah Bessie, called on Chaplin begging for a writing assignment. How about a movie on Don Quixote, Bessie spitballed, with you as Sancho Panza and Walter Huston as Don? "They'd crucify me," Chaplin told him crisply and offered a farewell handshake. When Bessie morosely withdrew, he found a folded hundred-dollar bill in his palm...
Appointment with Destiny: The Crucifixion of Jesus. Last weeks of Jesus, narrated by John Huston. 8, March 31, Chan...
This is both newsworthy and reprehensible. For years, it was impossible for film staffers to get such (relative) creative luminaries as John Huston and Orson Welles on any general mag's cover. Now, with cash-trickle, a bevy of blurbs, and disappointing product, technicians get the publicity. And inordinate faith in mass culture receives another well-deserved kick in the head...
...through his experimental success--2001--he has clung to his artistic ideals, making relevant and innovative films, while commanding big-studio budgets. No other American director has matched his consistency. John Ford palmed off three sentimental pot-boilers for every gritty piece of goods he managed; for long stretches Huston went for cash alone, and then stopped caring at all; soreheads Welles and Peckinpah get fired often. Kubrick, however, was too headstrong to succumb to yesmen and too foxy for the cashiers...