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MARSHALL "MA" NEWELL...
...century since a shy blonde out of Jamestown, N. Dak., named Peggy Lee (real name: Norma Egstrom) sang that lament with Benny Goodman's band. She did right-and made plenty money. The intervening years have brought her smash-hit records (Lover, Fever), success as a songwriter (Mañana, It's a Good Day), an Academy Award nomination as an actress (Pete Kelly's Blues), ardent fans (ranging from Duke Ellington to Rudolf Nureyev), and top nightclub engagements at $25,000 a week. They have also brought her serious illness and four divorces. But last week...
...BATTLE OF ALGIERS. A cinéma-vérité-style recounting of the Algerian guerrilla war against the French during the '50s, in which Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo has used not one frame of actual documentary film footage, yet manages to make the movie explosively real...
Died. Jane Darwell, 86, veteran actress in more than 300 Hollywood films, a strong-featured Missourian who over the years played mother (to Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart), grandmother (to Shirley Temple, Fabian) and whatever other home-and-hearth character the plot demanded, most notably Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, which won her a 1940 Oscar, and the Bird Woman in Mary Pop pins; of a heart attack; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...best, Bowles has no peer in his sullen art, and he offers here two superb stories of despair that prove it. One, The Frozen Fields, shows how a father's hostility slowly corrodes the brain of a small boy. The other, Tapia-ma, follows an American photographer to the end of his skid. It is a masterwork on the psychology of the dropout, an exemplary model of existentialism in the service of fiction. Utterly bored, the photographer drifts through Latin America and slips into drunkenness at a sinister plantation bar. Unconsciously, he falls victim to conspiracy, accident, destruction. "What...