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Monkey Business, an old Howard Hawks comedy about a scientist who invents a youth potion, moves into the Welles on Sunday. This delightful bit of oldfashioned comedy stars Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and a youngish Marilyn Monroe. It's being shown with Lifeboat, an Alfred Hitchcock suspense story that's not really up to Hitchcock's standard of excellence. Both movies are inordinately superior to the stuff that comes out of Hollywood nowadays. The double-bill goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

...archaic smile" distorted into a toothy leer. They are also drenched in evocative rhetoric about monstrous, insatiable female deities. The Women have been compared, severally and together, to the destroying Kali, to Robert Graves' White Goddess, to Alban Berg's Lulu, to Lilith and Marlene and Marilyn and Mona Lisa. Now obviously these drawings do have their demonic aspect - the air of Woman, circa 1951, with her staring black pupils, bared teeth and cuirass-like breasts, testifies to that; they are not just formal exercises. It certainly seems that De Kooning finds it hard to imagine women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Painter as Draftsman | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

Psychologists maintain that the most assiduous procrastinators are women, though many psychologists are (at $50-plus an hour) pretty good delayers themselves. Dr. Ralph Greenson, a U.C.L.A. professor of clinical psychiatry (and Marilyn Monroe's onetime shrink), takes a fairly gentle view of procrastination. "To many people," he says, "doing something, confronting, is the moment of truth. All frightened people will then avoid the moment of truth entirely, or evade or postpone it until the last possible moment." To Georgia State Psychologist Joen Pagan, however, procrastination may be a kind of subliminal way of sorting the important from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Fine Art of Putting Things Off | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...Deep Throat? So long, Miss Jones'? Could it be that the lust affair is over? Within the past year, two hard-core flicks (Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones) were among the nation's top-grossing films and porno stars like Linda Lovelace (Throat) and Marilyn Chambers (Behind the Green Door) became nationally-known figures. Today, hard-core movie houses are half empty. "Business is only 60% of what it was last year," says Porno Producer David Friedman, president of the Adult Film Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lust's Labor Lost | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Niagara with Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten, Friday and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

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