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...Dinner. Where was everybody? A lot of them were in Bel Air at the home of Producer Harold Mirisch, who chose this particular Monday night to throw a party. Mirisch and his spangled crowd-150 people on the level of Billy Wilder, Gene Kelly, Dean Martin, Louis Jourdan-watched the show on ten TV sets while eating a catered dinner...
...that way because it is out to say that something is in. Yet nothing is in-er than a dinner on the Bel Air circuit. Careers are made or snuffed there-at Saturday-night after-dinner screenings in the Bel Air homes of new power centers like Producers Harold Mirisch and Ray Stark, or old Hollywood truebloods like Bill Goetz, son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer...
...Mirisch's, a Matisse swings out from the wall, a screen drops from the ceiling, and people like the Fred Zinnemans, the William Wylers, the Billy Wilders, and William Holden settle back to judge a new picture or star whose fate may be seared with a wisecrack...
...Children's Hour (Mirisch; United Artists) is Director William Wyler's second try at doing right by Lillian Hellman's 1934 stage melodrama, whose burden was that lesbianism may be regrettable, but a nasty, spying child is simply intolerable. In 1936, when the first screenplay was made, Hollywood shied away from abnormal psychology. Wyler dropped the tainted Hellman title (the picture was renamed These Three) and changed an irregular triangle (young doctor loves girl teacher, and so does another girl teacher) into a right triangle (the two girl teachers love the young doctor...
...Three (Mirisch; United Artists) is a yell-mell, hard-sell, Sennett-with-a-sound-track satire of iron curtains and color lines, of people's demockeracy, Coca-Colonization, peaceful noexistence, and the Deep Southern concept that all facilities are created separate but equal. What's more, Director Billy Wilder makes his attitude stick like Schlagobers slung in the spectator's kisser. He purposely neglects the high precision of hilarity that made Some Like It Hot a screwball classic and The Apartment a peerless comedy of officemanship. But in the rapid, brutal, whambam style of a man swatting...