Word: kooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after that out-of-Capote beginning, Director Blake Edwards (High Time) goes on to an out-of-character end. On the conventional but dubious assumption that every kook belongs in some nice guy's kitchen, he induces poor Holly to give up mattress money for matrimony. As the nice guy, George Peppard scarcely makes the alternative seem attractive -he has that I-went-to-college-but-it-didn't-do-any-good look of the sort of Harvardman who couldn't even get a job in Washington. And Audrey Hepburn, though she plays with fluent...
Thriller (NBC) is an hour-long bloodmobile with Boris Karloff as host. Last week's unpromising première involved a Manhattan corporate executive framed as a murderer by a kleptomaniacal kook...
...also has ambitious ideas of taking over a major studio some day, or. failing that, starting one. "If you are a man of passions." he said passionately last week, "out here they label you a kook. a Commie, or an angle player." With head characteristically lowered, fists clenched, he went on: "I am a leader. I think. I can. I act. I want to lead with what I believe to be the truth. It makes me feel good inside. If I am an angle player, that is my angle." The fists unclenched and the lowered eyes raised slowly, effectively...
...appearances. The Clan last week behaved with admirable propriety. Frankie wore his hairpiece, snarled at not more than one photographer, and offered to sing a solo at the convention (offer declined). Pee-tah wore conservative grey suits and tried not to be conspicuous (Den Mother Shirley MacLaine, a kook in her own right, was for Adlai, so she did not count). Naturally, there were gala parties. Frankie sang new words to All the Way: May I be emphatic? I'm Italian Democratic- All the way. I know it sounds cutting, But we've had enough of putting-Night...
...gracious gentleman. Professionally, Nobel Prizewinner Pauling, professor of chemistry at Caltech, is recognized as one of the world's most eminent scientists. Politically, Pauling's naive flirtation with the left has made him a highly controversial figure, viewed by many as a kind of kook...