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GOLDFINGER. In another exuberant travesty of Ian Fleming's fiction, James Bond (Sean Connery) braves a mad Midas and some hilariously horrible sight gags.
Gold is the operative syllable. Goldfinger is a modern Midas who owns a solid-gold revolver, a solid-gold Rolls-Royce, and a gold-plated girl friend. He is reputedly a "bullionaire," but still he wants more gold; he wants all the gold in the world. To get it, Goldfinger...
All that is changing now. The great baronial manor houses are still standing and there are still one or two spreads that make Texas' King Ranch look like a truck garden.* But the vast green bulk of the pampas is being crosshatched by fences and boundary roads into smaller...
What a Way to Go! is five or six big, splashy movies rolled into none. Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, a pair of permanently show-struck Broadway librettists, it sets out to satirize the very things it seems head over heels in love with: moom pitchers and the...
The son of a lumberman and storekeeper in tiny Buctouche, N.B. (pop. 1,000), K. C. Irving early demonstrated the Midas touch. At five he sold the produce of his backyard garden (2? per cucumber); at ten he marketed the foil saved up from tea packages (4? per lb.). As...