Word: maugham
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...Andrea Orsini bowing low before the lovely Camilla degli Baglioni. Foxy Andrea can tell that Camilla is una illustrissima, but how is Camilla to know that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid in the same era as Somerset Maugham's trashy recent novel about Machiavelli. When it comes to the vital business of battles, eye-gougings, jeweled garters, entrancing moles on the thigh, and the neighing of palfreys, Shellabarger writes rings around the Maugham of Then...
...Somerset Maugham, 73, who talked last winter about writing his very last book, turned some of his past profits over to the future. Set up in Britain with $60,000 of Maugham money: a foundation to give one young writer a year a trip to some foreign country...
White people who live in tropical climates-according to Kipling, Conrad, Somerset Maugham and other tale-spinners-generally suffer a morbid decay called tropical deterioration. Not so, say the scientists. A monumental study recently published in Medicine argues that white men, if well-fed and guarded against disease, can thrive in the tropics...
...Private Affairs of Bel Ami (Loew-Lewin; United Artists) is the latest example of Albert Lewin's passion for bringing musky literary classics to the screen. Writer-Director Lewin is responsible for movie versions of Maugham's The Moon & Sixpence and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. His adaptation of Maupassant's coldly sardonic novel Bel Ami is his smoothest job to date. But it also clearly defines the limitations of Mr. Lewin's kind of movie...
...successfully argue that the picture fails to achieve its main objective--an elaborate yet faithful translation into celluloid of Maugham's best-seller of a few years back. But in this very success lies what is perhaps the film's greatest weakness; for stripped of all the shiny trappings of mysticism and profundity that a facile pen alone can put across, the story reduces itself to a basic substance which is, at most, pretty shadowy. It's really too bad that when the Hollywood moguls finally forgot about the kind of treatment they usually inflict upon a novel they couldn...