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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World adds up to 3 i hours of relentless overstatement. Producer-Director Stanley Kramer, a man for the big promise, conceived "a comedy to end all comedies." What has evolved after several years of preparation is $9,400,000 worth of unpalatable entertainment, more star-laden than Judgment at Nuremberg and longer (though sometimes less amusing) than On the Beach. Filmed in 70 mm. Ultra Panavision and the new seamless, single-lens Cinerama, Kramer's epic can rightly be called a blockbuster-the blocks busted or severely strained during its marathon frenzy include those of three Plymouths, four Fords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blockbuster & Bust | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...People following greed are funny,' says Kramer. "It's the best basis for a big chase." Maybe. But the great screen comedians-Chaplin, Keaton, Langdon Fields-lightened their essays on human folly with the inspired lunacy that makes art. Kramer offers the harshly realistic image of greed itself, and simply tops it off with wisecracks. His cast cannot match the physical style of Mack Sennett, and Mad World's substitute for wit is the flaccid humor of insult. In dozens of roadside hassles, Ethel Merman as Berle's nerve-shattering mother-in-law begins almost every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blockbuster & Bust | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

DANNY KAYE KAUFMAN T. KELLER JOHN M. KEMPER EDWARD KENNEDY STEPHEN P. KENNEDY GEORGE C. KENNEY CLARK KERR JEAN KERR ANCEL KEYS ROBERT E. KINTNER JACK KRAMER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time's 40th Anniversary Party: THE COVER GUESTS | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...next play. And when it counted, Fullback Taylor, spitting blood from cuts inside his mouth, rumbled through for the score. "That was our only mistake," said the Giants later. Had they stopped Taylor, the result would have been the same. Whenever the Packer attack stalled, Guard Jerry Kramer booted a field goal-three in all-and Green Bay won, 16-7. Then the country boys headed back to Wisconsin, richer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Always When It Counts | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...bench half the season-when he was not posing for ads. The loss would cripple almost any other team. Yet, filling in for Hornung at halfback. Tom Moore scored seven touchdowns, averaged 3.1 yds. every time he carried the ball. Handling Hornung's place-kicking chores. Guard Jerry Kramer booted nine field goals, 36 straight extra points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vinnie, Vidi, Vici | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

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