Word: michael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forward into the breach and, in the true spirit of James Michael Curley, re-elect the Senator in 1970 and forget the rest...
About the same time he married, Erpf decided that he had to have a maze on his 500-acre property in the Catskills. And not just a collection of decorative hedging either. He called Michael Ayrton, a maze-mad English sculptor, architect and author of The Maze Maker, a fictional autobiography of Daedalus. "I just read your book," said Erpf. "I want one of those." Today, thanks to Ayrton, Armand Erpf has "one of those...
...first spectacular, a 90-minute Betty Hutton songfest on NBC in 1954, was actually out of the ordinary. Nowadays, specials are so predictably unspecial that NBC alone has announced more than 100 for next season. Among the most ambitious is a production of David Copperfield starring Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams and Dame Edith Evans. The most regal spectacular from CBS will be Royal Family, a peek at Queen Elizabeth and her kin. Jacques Cousteau's undersea documentaries will continue to shine...
Ready? In the late 1930s, Justine (Anouk Aimée), the sensual wife of an Egyptian banker named Nessim (John Vernon), had been yearning after the aloof British diplomat Pursewarden (Dirk Bogarde), although she had to content herself with the favors of Darley (Michael York), a young writer and lover of a belly dancer named Melissa (Anna Karina). Suddenly Justine and Nessim are revealed as Coptic Christians involved in smuggling guns to Palestine so that the Jews can fight the British. Pursewarden, who knows of their treachery, keeps silent, apparently out of love for Justine. Melissa meanwhile goes...
...excuse for throwing away what lines the character does have. The female lead, Susan Channing, as the Devil, superb actress she is, was so wonderfully bratty, saucy and puckish that it is hard to imagine what liberties she will take when she has fully mastered her part. Michael Dobbson clowns splendidly in a mime of Jonah and the whale--a mime set to cello music in a kind of Mayeresque Peter and the Wolf...