Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Symbolical Journey. Perhaps the playhouse is so fine because it is a gift of love. It was built for a person as well as a purpose. It is Houston's outpouring of affection for Nina Vance, 53, a perky, scrappy woman who founded the Alley and fought for regional theater before the words were invented...
...choice of a first play, Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, to launch the new theater was symbolically correct. Houston is the nation's space center, and on opening night 30 of the U.S.'s 52 astronauts were present. They journey among the stars that Galileo peered at through his heretical telescope...
...shot-up am-tracks visible at low tide belongs to the Japanese. It seems fitting to affix a bronze plaque at the base of a white pylon in memory of the United States Marines who won a unique battle there. They provided the lessons for the rest of the journey...
...bluish? You don't look bluish"), and the boys' voyage is filled with stilted symbolism. In one scene, the quartet passes by the Sea of Phrenology, where huge heads of Moses, Cicero, Freud and Einstein loom; John recalls that a fellow named Ulysses also went on a journey. Ultimately, however, what is wrong with the film is the Beatles. They are not in it. Except for the songs and a final sequence in which they appear live in some drab sing-along footage, they had nothing to do with Yellow Submarine. All but the most confirmed Beatlemaniacs...
Along the journey to nowhere, Sellers displays a few glimmers of the comic genius that once made him seem like a chip off the old Chaplin, notably in a hilarious Spanish-Yiddish-English brouhaha involving his mother and eleven Mexican whiplash-injury clients. But most of the time, the movie reduces him to elephantine gestures and TV-sized jokes. As he runs into the fadeout, a passing hippie asks him where he is going. "I don't know," Sellers answers. "There must be someplace." The line sums up both this meandering movie and the flickering career of a gifted...