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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.).* Dean Martin plays it straight in Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic (1963), also featuring Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller, Gene Tierney and Yvette Mimieux...
...finest turn their backs on one of their own. With less than ten days before trial time, he goes on a solo search for the missing gun and the story behind it. Running down false leads and blind alleys, Janssen caroms off a series of star suspects, including Lillian Gish as a septuagenarian lapdog lover, Eleanor Parker as a merry widow whose idea of mourning is martinis with black olives, and George Grizzard as a womanizing airline pilot...
When the curtain rises, the time is 1900, and Cinderella-here named Georgina-is in "the white folks' kitchen," mopping. Her mama, a five-by-five fortress of a woman (Lillian Hayman), argues that a mop is a Negro girl's best friend. But Georgina (Uggams) begs her prince charming, a Pullman porter named Clem (Robert Hooks), to take her away from all this. Together, they take the overground railway North...
...accused of witchcraft by Abigail, the depraved 18-year-old, closely parallel the response to the "Are you now or have you ever been...?" of the HUAC hearings. When, John Proctor, the play's hero, agrees to confess his own sins but refuses to "name names," he is repeating Lillian Hellman's stand before the Committee; The Crucible is a textbook of such reactions...
...pervert and retired male prostitute, presumably knows the camp language exchanged by consenting adults. And it is hard to believe, for example, that a kiss between homosexual males should be described as "a smack"-a word which had some facetious currency about the time of Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell. Criminal Hierarchy. Written in prison in 1943 and first published in France in 1951, the book creates an intense picture of Genet's closed world. France outside the walls practically ceases to exist; only bare intimations of it seep through. A war is going on somewhere. The prisoners...