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...these and several other scenes, Director Sidney Lumet rises vigorously to the dread occasion. Item: the large animated map, on which enormous aerial battles are imagined in diagram and followed as they flow, is a magnificent narrative conceit. But during the last half of the film the illusion of reality slowly collapses into a steaming mess of socio-political platitudes ("In a nuclear war, everybody loses"). If Dr. Strangelove, as some think, made a serious subject silly, Fail Safe too often makes a serious subject soggy. The customers begin to yawn and then to smile. Indeed, in the final scene...
Married. Gloria Vanderbilt, 39, spotlighted heiress: and Wyatt Emory Cooper, 39, Hollywood scriptwriter (The Chapman Report); she for the fourth time (the others, in order: Actor's Agent Pat di Cicco, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Director Sidney Lumet), he for the first; in a civil ceremony, in Arlington...
Divorced. Gloria Vanderbilt, 39, who never seemed able to settle down after she got $5,000,000 of the family fortune as a 21st birthday present; and TV-Movie Director Sidney Lumet, 39; by mutual consent on grounds of incompatibility; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...
...about it: "It's more or less doing a take-off of myself." "They still admire each other very, very much, and they will always be the best of friends." Such sentiments, expressed as they were by the family lawyer, naturally meant that Gloria Vanderbilt De Cicco Stokowslci Lumet, 39, was off to divorceland once again. After seven years with Movie Director Sidney Lumet, 39, the poor little rich girl was reported headed for Juarez for one of those rápido decrees...
Long Day's Journey into Night. Director Sidney Lumet and an imposing cast (Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr., Dean Stockwell) have transformed a great play by Eugene O'Neill into a good film: a study of spiritual wretchedness...