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...wail begins as a moan. The sensual anguish of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint can be traced back to a fictive lament written when he was 26. The film version of Goodbye, Columbus is wise enough to preserve his undeniable assets: the sexual candor, the sour salt of Jewish skepticism, the ear that has overheard everything and forgiven nothing. The movie goes astray occasionally, not because it is too faithful to Roth's text, but because it imitates other films, notably The Graduate. A pity. Goodbye, Columbus is stronger on dialogue and longer on humanity...
...sure to aim for my head," Bunch, who had been examined by an Army psychiatrist, deliberately walked away from a work detail. He was killed by a single shotgun blast that ripped his skull. That night, when the other prisoners vocally protested the shooting, Captain Robert S. Lament, 25, disciplinary officer, told them that they were in danger of committing mutiny...
Shock Effect. At the trial, Lament testified that he had read to the protesting prisoners Article 94 of the Military Code, which defines mutiny, "for the shock effect." He said that he did not read the article that prescribes the penalties for disturbing the peace because his mind was "focused on mutiny." The defense brought in an acoustical expert who said that the prisoners in the enclosed courtyard could not have heard Lament's warning carried over a loudspeaker. The charge of mutiny itself was questioned by Army Investigator Captain Richard J. Millard. In a report that was never...
...childhood, moviemaking was a global business. The nine Farrows trooped from Los Angeles to Spain, then on to London, where a series of tragedies began. "You can't be Irish without knowing the world is going to break your heart before you're 40," goes the Gaelic lament. For Mia the time was halved. Although the Farrow family life was chaotic and neurotic, there were still close alliances within its framework. In London at '13, she learned that her brother Michael, with whom she had been closest, had been killed in a private-plane crash in California. "It quite simply...
ZORBA. Producer-Director Harold Prince seems to have tried to fashion a sequel to his Fiddler on the Roof, camouflaged with a Greek accent. But Zorba isn't Jewish, and the miscasting and bogus bouzouki music scarcely ever evoke the characteristic tone of Levantine lament...