Word: lila
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found a partial solution. His partner, Blueboy, a shrewd, gamy con man, will play whatever role the whites expect of him with a comic and cynical flourish. His mistress, Kelly Sims, a college-educated chemist, bravely but quixotically banks her hopes for Negro progress on intellect. His eventual wife, Lila, a wise but unlettered country girl, has the "black granite" endurance that was once popularly thought to be the essential quality of the Negro race...
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates and Lila Kedrova in Zorba the Greek...
...attention, whereas Irene Papas was starved for passion and seething with it. As for the aging soubrette of a landlady who embarks on her last amorous voyage with that pirate of life Zorba, Maria Karnilova simply cannot provide the mixture of girlish coquetry, humor and faded carnality that made Lila Kedrova's film performance such a stunning achievement...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Zorba the Greek (1964). A grand bacchanalian bash based on a novel by the late Nikos Kazantzakis. Starring Anthony Quinn, Lila Kedrova, Irene Papas and Alan Bates...
What Color Brain? If there really was an Eloise, she drove off a bridge to her death. If there really was a Rebecca, she either committed suicide by drowning or the sharks ate her. If there was a Lila, she climbed an apple tree and fell to her death. And if there really was a Gus, he was a psychological basket case: "I did relate emotionally. I have no idea what color his brain was ... He had green eyes and a face of shifting flesh, and a name something like Charlie." Or maybe Eloise or Rebecca or Lila...