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Counterpointing the realistic presentation of Ruby's fling with Earl Tibbits is the treatment of her niece Vivian, a self-contained, gum-chewing teenager, much closer to Nabokov's Lolita than was Sue Lyon, who played the part in Kubrick's movie. With no claims to any particular beauty or charm. Vivian succeeds--where Ruby doesn't--simply because she is young, because she doesn't care, because she regards adoration...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Ruby Ha Ha | 5/24/1972 | See Source »

Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick with James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Orson Welles Cinema, 4, 7, 10, May 21-23. With Walt Disney's Ferdinand the Bull and identity crisis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 5/18/1972 | See Source »

There he slowed down a bit, took more leisurely glances at the passing beauty ("feminine pulchritude," he called it), and talked of shared arcana. "You know," he said conspiratorally, with a Yugoslavian roll, "the only reason Walker got his interview was from kissing Kubrick's ass..." Thus dispensing with the first book of the series in which his own appears...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Simonizing | 5/18/1972 | See Source »

Spartacus. Kirk Douglas. directed by Stanley Kubrick. 9. May 14. Chan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 5/11/1972 | See Source »

...Tramp in the Academy Awards. With the little fellow's creator, Charlie Chaplin, on hand for his honorary Oscar, the rest of the usual inanity was almost bearable. In its professional judgments, the Academy showed an unforgivable lapse: neither John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday nor Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange collected a single Oscar. The acting awards, on the other hand, were highly plausible. Most striking was Jane Fonda's citation as Best Actress for her portrayal of a call girl in Klute, showing that Hollywood is no longer totally hysterical about off-screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hackman Connection | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

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