Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kirk Douglas, selected by the Lampoon as the worst actor of the year, retaliated in a telegram yesterday...
...Kirk Douglas and Debbie Reynolds have received the Lampoon's annual awards for the Worst Actor and Worst Actress of the year...
Last year a Roman studio produced Ulysses, a $3,200,000 version of the Odyssey, but the title role was played by Hollywood Actor Kirk Douglas, and the picture was released in the U.S. by Paramount Pictures. The Iliad is now presented in a $6000,000 production in full color by Warner Bros., but the picture has an Italian heroine, and was actually filmed in Rome's big Cinecitta. In both cases, the blind poet, who wrote as well as any man for the mind's eye, has been translated for the camera's with all possible...
...singer in a high-flying cast was Leontyne Price, whose liquid soprano never sounded truer or sweeter. The brilliant music was matched by TV Director Kirk Browning's elegant camera shots, and the designs made of heads and bodies by Stage Director George Balanchine. It was not quite matched by the singable but self-conscious English text by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, but it all added up to the finest TV opera to date...
...Indian Fighter, first production of an independent company formed by Actor Kirk Douglas, is one of the more successful of Hollywood's current attempts to sow a wild oater. The picture begins with a closeup shot of a shapely Indian girl (Elsa Martinelli) undressing by the side of a forest stream. After a while a paleface (Kirk Douglas) moseys by, and the two of them engage in some water play. By the time Actor Douglas gets out of the drink, he is really in the Siouxp. Old Red Cloud is attacking the fort...