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What makes The Best Man so good is the professional tone maintained in all of the photography, direction, sets, and, especially, the acting. Margaret Leighton as Russell's wife and Shelly Berman as an old army pal of Cant-well give brilliant performances along with Lee Tracy, in his recreaton of his Broadway role of the dying, crusty ex-President whose endorsement is sought by both candidates...
...climactic confrontation scene with Robertson's old Army buddy, letting TV Comic Shelley Berman play the role mostly for laughs. Appearances by Edie Adams, Negro Singer Mahalia Jackson, Commentators Howard K. Smith and John Henry Faulk, and Vidal himself (as a Senator) range from agreeable to irrelevant. Margaret Leighton, at loose ends in a truncated role as Fonda's wife, somehow suggests that she is running for the throne of England...
...54th. "Cockney impudence," snorted Ruskin at Whistler's painting. Whistler sued and won. The arrows the Victorians flung at one another had more zing than their painting, which they tried to free from what they called the "claptrap" of emotions. Albert Moore, Charles Conder and Lord Leighton come close to succeeding; Whistler, fortunately, does not. Beauty without feeling, after all, is like being dressed up with no place to go. Some 30 works in various media. Through March...
...facts that would complicate or lengthen a story beyond a reasonable point. Also left out on occasion are some of our writers' most cherished literary touches. TIME'S theater critic is still smarting from the fact that when, in a recent issue, he tried to describe Margaret Leighton's eyes "as pools of blue starlight," the phrase was changed to "wounds of inner pain" (on reflection, perhaps both were a bit much). One of our movie critic's most painful losses was his description of Tony Curtis as "a sort of Gary Grunt." And this week...
...CHINESE PRIME MINISTER. In a triumph of style over substance, this drawing-room comedy pours some intellectual eyewash about old age as if it were Dom Perignon. But Playwright Enid Bagnold writes with unfailing grace and literacy, and Margaret Leighton is an actress who can do no wrong...