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...Wilhelm Fränger is the latest to have a try at unraveling the tangle of Bosch's imagery. In a book recently published, The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch (University of Chicago Press; $10), he sets forth an original conclusion: Bosch was not an orthodox Christian with a morbid interest in sins of the flesh, but a heretic, whose odd images are "cryptograms" and "hieroglyphs" understandable only to other initiates of his cult...
...throws hysterical fits, fluffs her lines on the set. Running off the unpromising dailies (rushes), Mike buries himself in booze and Benzedrine. The movie and the illicit love affair have a sudden downbeat ending. A sculptor lures Mollie off to Mexico and death by pneumonia. Even with this morbid added feature, the sneak preview of Mike's film draws laughs in the wrong places and he knows he has produced a flop, and probably his last picture. "It's a dying town . . . the last days of Pompeii . . . The Cadillacs are already beginning to flee the doomed city, carrying...
...Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune: "Witness . . . is the self-dramatization of a soul, haunted by morbid guilt and touched with religious passion, a 'confession' and one of the extraordinary documents of our time...
...before the start of the big Bridgehampton Cup race, some 35,000 spectators lined the closed-course route. They craned at one of the three killing right-angle turns, or hurried down to the bridge where the cars jumped to a four-wheel takeoff. Some were attracted by the morbid sudden-death aspect of the sport, but mostly they were dedicated sports-car fans...
Miss Phoenix possessed not only a great deal of energy but a lively morbid imagination as well. It is rumored that she was the originator of the legend of The Beast that Walks in the Night, a horrid mythical creature that perpetrates outrageous crimes upon unsuspecting announcers...