Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pinocchio-beaked hero, José Ferrer gave the season's best starring performance, whether spitting an opponent on his sword or agonizing for love of Roxane, who, as played by Britain's enchanting Claire Bloom, seemed well worth it. Playwrights '56 struck a more sombre note with Ernest Hemingway's The Battler, whose familiar plot (a heavyweight champion is broken by success) was well-served by Paul Newman as the crazed, broken-faced pug, and Dewey Martin as a young runaway who finds the world both terrible and tender...
First, he would have taken note of the conditions and wondered at the insanity of the American football player. The wind raised havoc with the passes; the setting sun glared into the eyes of the passer; each time someone fell, his face slid along in the slimy mud; yet no one seemed to care...
...this he would have taken note of and it would have gladdened his heart, for this is the sort of thing he had told his readers about. But, probably, he didn't really understand football...
...Prosperity-in-Hollywood note: M-G-M announced that its stable of topflight screen writers had hit an eight-year high, with 51 writers at work on 41 major movies...
Like corn like picture. The charm of the play was in its note, however falsetto, of meadowy romp and dooryard homeliness. But the demand of the giant screen is for size and spectacle. The figure of Laurie, far away and touching as she sings Out of My Dreams ("and into your arms"), becomes on the screen a colossal closeup in which the heroine's left nostril alone is large enough to park a jeep in. The dances, too, come far too close for comfort. Though Agnes de Mille revised them for the camera, they now seem more like sophomore...