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...vice versa, for in the Nov. 24 cinema review of I Want to Live, you say: "To judge from the . . . dragsville dialogue that Krylon-sprays the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems ... to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser." We are pleased indeed that "Krylon spray" is so well known that its name is used to describe a spraying process. But then we read on to a "cheap glaze," and we become unpleased in a hurry! Krylon is the producer of the world...
...Morbid. Even worse is what charity audiences do not want to be shown. Last season The Entertainer with Laurence Olivier went untouched by charity groups-it was "English and too depressing." Also taboo: Shakespeare, anything "controversial" or avantgarde...
...business with every musical headed for Broadway. But for Daarlin' Man, response was spotty ("Can you imagine a Jewish organization going to an Irish play?"). Pleadingly, she tried to sell Tennessee Williams' forthcoming Sweet Bird of Youth: "No, I really don't think Williams is so morbid. A bit sexy, maybe. And it's got Paul Newman. Wouldn't you like an early night?" The charity man wanted none of it, leaving one night less on Broadway for Tennessee Williams...
...judge from the far-out photography, real desperate sound track, and dragsville dialogue that Krylon-spray the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems less concerned to assist the triumph of justice than to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser...
...morbid and ghoulish...