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...even Mister Magoo can make effective. The problems with his Scrooge are not exactly his fault: in the first place he doesn't look like Scrooge. I've always pictured Scrooge as a shriveled up old man with small beady eyes and thin, bloodless lips, sort of like a nun who taught me in the second grade. No amount of makeup could make Albert Finney look like that nun, and I guess he wasn't perfectionist enough to go on a starvation diet. The second problem is that Finney can't sing. He may sing well enough in his normal...
...Televisionland, inspiration seldom soars higher than a flying nun and quality is usually borrowed, not born. Thus it should be no surprise that the season's liveliest new situation comedy is an ABC adaptation of Neil Simon's five-year-old play, The Odd Couple. The success is not simply Simon's; the only writing he does for the weekly program is his name on the back of a weekly royalty check. The real source of the Odd Couple's life is the most empathetic team of situation comedians since Gleason and Carney. They are Tony...
Similarly, the Second Nun's Tale, the story of St. Cecilia, is the representation to Chaucer of the finest in medieval piety. However, that piety has long since disappeared from our culture. Bergreen works hard to give tale the impact it once had. He has his company highlight the story with a musical accompaniment that is both medieval and reflective. It is a fine touch, and Marie Kohler as St. Cecilia gives a concinving performance. Virginity, however, is no longer an issue, and St. Cecilia's efforts to preserve her maidenhead seem more fit for laughter than for pious reflection...
...midi campaign, Fairchild's principal strategists are Brady and June Weir, WWD's fashion editor, whom Fairchild made a vice president in a recent shakeup (and whom Jacques Tiffeau calls "a nun with a knife in both pockets"). Fairchild and Brady have been close friends ever since 1953, when John was covering the retail stores and Brady was working in Macy's advertising department. Weir came to WWD in 1954, also from Macy's, where she had been an assistant buyer. Fairchild first got the midi notion in 1966, says Weir, when he saw Zhivago-inspired coats in Paris...
Eastwood is an 1865 soldier of fortune who pauses on his way through Mexico to help a nun escape the clutches of some typically greasy and grinning desperadoes. The nun tags along with the adventurer, and her presence causes him considerable discomfort. He ogles her across the campfire every night and takes heavy pulls on his bottle of whisky to still his mighty but unrighteous lust. Screenwriter Albert Maltz would probably call this comic irony. After too many of these interludes, Eastwood delivers dynamite to some rebels and joins them in an attack on a fortress, during which the nun...