Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Trial, MGM's 1955 film about a university instructor (Glenn Ford) who defends a young boy (Rafael Campos) accused of murder...
...revised version, he visualized Alberich and Wotan as archetypes of "wheeler-dealer politicians," the heroes Siegfried and Siegmund as self-sacrificing astronauts, the Rhinemaidens as the bosses' sexy secretaries, Wotan's wife Fricka as everybody's nagging mother-in-law, Fafner and Fasolt as Murder Inc.'s cold blooded killers, Briinnhilde as a man's best pal, the temptress Gutrune as a call girl...
...terms of Jung and Freud. "I wanted to show how many archetypic, primordial, age-old and yet permanently renewing elements of mankind are contained in my grandfather's tetralogy," says Wieland, "and secondly, to prove it is a crime story and chiller of the first order-blood, murder and sex, with more surprise and suspense than a James Bond thriller...
...podium at Philharmonic Hall last week and a capacity audience rose to its feet in unison to pay homage. At 72, Darius Milhaud is crippled by arthritis and rarely appears publicly any more. But this was a special occasion-the New York premiere of Milhaud's Murder of a Great Chief of State, in memory of John F. Kennedy...
...superb, now freezing almost imperceptibly over some affront to his fairly rigid erotic code, now quivering with gleeful, guilty passion as he catches a scent of danger. But his solid performance is wasted in fleshing out a hollow comic premise. In the end, Casanova collapses into palaver about murder and morals in a frantic courtroom scene-the customary last stop for a comedy that has lost its case...