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Poulenc: Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani (Richard Ellsasser; Hamburg Philharmonia conducted by Arthur Winograd; M-G-M). A highly colored work that finds Composer Poulenc at his most charming. It is tuneful, with moments of surrealist shiftiness, brooding melancholy, sheer pyrotechnics. The disk has excessive surface noise...
...Power and the Prize (M-G-M), like Executive Suite and Patterns, starts out as if it were really going to explain the difference between the American Way of Life and the Normal Course of Business...
...swivel-hipped Marilyn Monroe, who is scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth at the annual "command performance" later this month, did not seem displeased when told that M-G-M is "very interested" in having her star in the studio's planned film version of Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Although nobody would take Marilyn seriously when she said a couple of years ago that she wanted to play Grushenka,*M-G-M said last week, "The part is hers, if she doesn't want half the studio...
...Sympathy (M-G-M), as a play, was basically just a darn good matinee drama, and the tremendous excitement it generated in audiences was mostly Freudulent. The play packed them in on Broadway for more than 20 months, and was sold to Hollywood for $300,000. After that, the movie world wondered: Had M-G-M spent a bad buck? For almost a year the Hollywood censors and the studio bosses hassled over the weighty problems the film posed. Is the U.S. moviegoer old enough to be told that there is such a thing as homosexuality...
Intensity & Tragedy. To photograph Van Gogh's original oils, M-G-M sought out the canvases of collectors and museums all around the world, including some of the masterpieces in Moscow's rarely seen collection (see color). Film crews shot on-the-spot takes of the Van Gogh family house in Holland, re-created some of the scenes he painted, retraced his footsteps from the Borinage to Paris and the sun-baked square at Aries...