Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spartacus. Hollywood has taken the old formula of brawn (Kirk Douglas championing Rome's oppressed) and sex (Jean Simmons swimming in the nude) and added both heart and brain to this massive epic. Thanks to the sharp eye of Director Stanley Kubrick, the literary bent of Scenarist Dalton Trumbo and good performances by Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov, Spartacus adds up to an impressive piece of moviemaking despite its obeisance to commercialism...
...course, is not permitted to inhibit quantity. Shot in a widescreen, full-color process known as Super-Technirama 70. Spartacus runs for 3 hr. 25 min., including a brief intermission, employs 100 major sets, 8,000 extras and far more big names than most marquees can carry-among them Kirk Douglas. Sir Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. Peter...
Died. Major General (ret.) Norman Thomas Kirk, 72, Surgeon General of the Army from 1943 to 1947, a skilled orthopedist and administrator, whose 700,000 man World War II Medical Corps helped double the survival rate of battle casualties over World War I; following abdominal surgery; in Washington...
Ustinov's Diplomats (Geis; $1.50). Can be read while running a four-minute mile; funny big pictures, mildly funny little text in which Ustinov, in his better moments the most amusing beard since G.B.S., imitates U.N. types. Typical Geis touch: Cineman Kirk Douglas adds an introduction in which he reminds everyone that Ustinov appears with him in the forthcoming movie Spartacus...
...three); once a friend borrowed his Lincoln and found in it a huge pile of magazines, dirty laundry and $5,000 in cash. He dates beautiful women sporadically (Actresses Nancy Olsen, Haya Hayareet), has almost outgrown the starlet stage and has outlived a two-year romance with Actress Phyllis Kirk. Sometimes he prefers the company of carhops and waitresses ("Yes, I've worked that beat, too"). With an independent grin, he says: "I feel if you have enough of these healthy interests-watches, razors, automobiles-you will have no need for human relationships...