Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producer's next play, about a middle-aged man who falls in love with a young girl, is headed nowhere. Realizing that he is a has-been, Gable decides to quit Broadway, fires his 22-year-old secretary (Carroll Baker). She turns on him and snarls: "I love you. I hope you rot for spoiling love for me with other men. You did a terrible thing to me. You opened my eyes and heart and never touched me.'' So he touches her. There, by golly, is the twist he needs. The young girl in his play should...
Aggrieved as they might have been, her old friends would hardly have murdered her. One of Sapphire's earlier landladies more accurately suggests the killer's motive, asks: "Would you be pleased with a brass sovereign...
...shuddery look at Jean Cocteau, in which France's brilliant jack-of-arts sits tickling his lips with a stalk of lily of the valley, calculating his audience as coldly as a lizard calculates a fly-a portrait of the infant prodigy as an old...
...arresting snapshot of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Eliot, in which the wrinkled old (71) poet stands with his arms looped fondly but awkwardly around the neck of his wholesome young (32) wife, his face caught in a quizzical expression, half doubt and half delight-a portrait of J. Alfred Prufrock, who has dared to eat a peach...
...time is 1767, and great political and social changes are on the way. but the Di Rondo family is as impervious to change as only true eccentrics can be. When young Cosimo, an alarmingly imaginative twelve-year-old, has a run-in with his stuffy father, he climbs a big tree and vows, "I'll never come down again!" And he doesn't-for more than half a century. The area around the little north Italian town of Ombrosa is so heavily forested that he can travel for miles swinging from tree to tree like an 18th century...