Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THAT MAN FROM RIO. Poisoned darts and snappish Brazilian crocodiles are among the dangers faced by Jean-Paul Belmondo in hilarious spoof of all the next-earthquake-please action pictures...
...wedge of cops hustled their handcuffed prisoner toward the doors of St. Pierre jail. Before they could make it, a screaming mob burst through police lines and pelted the prisoner with blows. "Give him to us!" they cried. "Kill the monster!" Their target was the confessed killer of little Jean-Luc Taron (TIME, June 19), and he seemed elated at the commotion. Turning to the flics, he yelled above the uproar: "They're right! 1 am a monster...
...properly effeminate Daddy opposite Mrs. Lane, but his gestures too often seem forced. I have a similar quarrel with Harriet Roger's Grandma. Wriggling, swaying, and stooping after a while become obvious devices, but still Mrs. Roger has an excellent sense of timing, and her Grandma is thoroughly likable. Jean Comstock turns in a creditable performance as Mrs. Barker. Alexander Pertzoff's set is obviously the one Albee intended for his play. The frankfurter sofa, the hamburger easy chair, and the malted milk end table are wonderfully ingenious and seem perfectly natural...
...charm with scaly creatures did not confine itself to working hours. In a steamy Amazon town, Jean-Paul went out into the jungle one night and came back to the hotel with a dozen baby crocodiles, crept into rooms late at night and put a baby croc into everyone's bidet. Soon he had two baby leopards, four macaws, several adolescent crocodiles, a parrot and three snakes in his own room. Remembers the film's producer: "The crocodiles ate the birds. The leopards ate the crocodiles. The snakes died of starvation. The room stank like the bottom...
...Jean Mayer, associate professor of Nutrition in the Graduate School of Public Health, blasted the Boston School Committee Wednesday night for their persistent refusal to establish a government-subsidized school lunch program...