Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FATHER (Sir Ralph Richardson) is an aging but still vigorous actor who went hungry as a child and has never forgotten it. As a matinee idol he got rich quick, but for fear of the poorhouse he ruined his career and destroyed his wife. When he made a hit in a cheap meller, he played nothing else for a decade. And when his wife had a pain one night, he sent her to a cheap quack who cynically put the poor girl on morphine...
...Ingrid Bergmans, Peter Lorres and Maurice Chevaliers did so. But now it is different. As ruins go, Hollywood is smoking more and enjoying it less, while the most renowned motion pictures of the present are being made by Europeans and Asians. Hence there is a new phenomenon-the movie idol who is adored throughout the U.S. in much the same way that Clark Gable was once admired from Saipan to Tangier. The greatest of these is Italy's Marcello Mastroianni...
Loomis tries to teach Charlie to catch a baseball. Endore intervenes, throws the ball back to Loomis with a contemptuous, "Charlie doesn't want it." Later, when Charlie slices the head off a wounded bird and throws it at Loomis in an unconscious mimicking of his killer idol, Loomis sadly senses that he is losing the battle to turn the boy into a humane being. When the cease-fire comes, Endore goes hopelessly psychopathic and heads for the hills with his knife, and Charlie. This jeopardizes the cease-fire agreement, and some of Endore's platoon mates volunteer...
Touching the Rim. Brumel has a matinee-idol grin, a great fondness for watching U.S. television and a compulsion to jump-anywhere, any time, over anything. Standing in the Stanford gym before the meet. Brumel happily demonstrated his technique by leaping up under a 10ft.-high basket and touching the rim with his right foot...
...there, Stanhope found the leisure to write poetry and critical appreciations of Corneille by marrying wealthy Adelaide ("A good wife. An invaluable partner. Such a relief when she died"). Stanhope was not without weapons: his unflappable poise was buttressed by arctic sarcasm that could condescend to Curtal as the "idol of mediocrity" who picked up other men's ideas as a robin does crumbs...