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...movie's opening scenes establish the unreal tone which Director Kubrick adeptly maintains for the remaining two hours. While the titles are flashed on the screen, Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is shown behind them giving a manicure treatment to Lolita (Sue Lyon). The movie proper opens with the scene that ends the book. Gun in pocket, James Mason stalks into Clare Quilty's (Peter Sellers) mansion, and commits an amusing if horrifying murder. Sellers is superb as he tries to talk the insane Humbert out of killing him--an unshaven, hungover ping-pong player...
Until Sellers reenters the narrative, however, the humor lags. Mason is disgustingly lecherous enough and Sue Lyon, as a blond-haired, blue-eyed, bud-breasted adolescent, succeeds in making sensitive, intelligent Humbert become just a dirty old man. Shelley Winters, however, as Lolita's mother and Humbert's aggressive, nymphomaniacal, and pscudointellectual suitor, over-acts too much; in trying so hard to make poor Mrs. Haze an interesting character, she becomes a bit tedious and tiresome...
...Jack Benny Program (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Guest: Raymond Burr, TV's Perry Mason...
...problem of determining the criteria for exceptions came to a head last fall. When President Pusey left the country to tour Asia, Edward S. Mason, a professor in economics and public administration, temporarily took over the chairmanship of the CEP. He soon received the usual number of petitions, including several to which no clear answer was evident. Mason first discussed these specific cases with the CEP and then suggested that the general topic merited a formal and thorough investigation, in the form of the essay collection. In November, CEP member Leon D. Bramson, an assistant professor of social relations, took...
...than-well-bred political stance and personality irked most of his colleagues, his departure is viewed as good riddance. But his spitfiery wife Laura (Brenda Vaccaro) is certain of his innocence, certain that he has been victimized for his fellow-traveling ideology. She pleads with Sir Lewis Eliot (Brewster Mason), a renowned lawyer and former university fellow, to reopen Howard's case and fight for his reinstatement...