Word: novak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flacks connected with filming Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage have been behaving as if they were making another version of the offscreen Cleopatra. Soon after shooting began a couple of months ago, Roderick Mann of London's Sunday Express arrived for an exclusive interview with Kim Novak-and that's what he got. He stopped taking notes and started holding hands with her at the races. "This is a very personal thing between Roddy and me," Kim tells Roddy's competitors. Meanwhile. Director Henry Hathaway. 65, was telling Novak that she was "a silly bitch...
...prove the point, one Mirror executive held up a picture of a demurely necklined deb and declared: "I defy you to find her cleavage." Nobody bothered to search, for the Mirror can still be counted on to reflect racier stuff. Only last week it ran a picture of Kim Novak that posed no plunging-neckline problem because there was no neckline. In fact, there were no clothes...
Newcomer Hedren bids fair to take her rightful place in the succession of Hitchcock Ice Princesses (bland, blonde predecessors: Eva Marie Saint, Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Madeleine Carroll) if she can learn to register horror more convincingly before the cameras roll again. Veteran Ethel Grififies, as a sensible-shoed bird lover, provides a deft and daft counterpoint to the bird-damning villagers. But the most unforgettable performers in The Birds are the birds. They are utterly, terrifyingly believable as they go about their bloody business of murdering humanity. Pigeons loitering around the exits of theaters where this movie is shown...
...Doris Day all shower at least three times a day; Mario Lanza roamed the streets of Beverly Hills at night in his Cadillac to batter down the mailbox of a movie mogul he thought had betrayed him; Harry Cohn broke up the romance of Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak by having a thug threaten to work Sammy over. And if such racy bits never appeared in her column, it must be because hard-cover publishers are more broad-minded than editors of family newspapers...
...point: it is made up of three essays of varying length, a short short story, two poems, a one-act play that-runs to some twenty pages, and a hefty book review. All of the essays are about Jews and Judaism (although one was written by a Catholic, Michael Novak, and concerns itself with the problems he feels arise when a Catholic "encounters" a Jew), the short story has been cast in a specifically Jewish idiom (the involved mock-reminiscence practiced by Issac Bashevis Singer), and at least one of the poems has an announced Jewish theme (though, I confess...