Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amuse himself by smuggling a poor dancer into a society ball, so that she may embarrass all his snobby friends and at the same time cure his identical-twin brother of lovesickness. Among the several figures crouched behind the bushes--one can't help thinking--are Richard Sheridan, Oscar Wilde, and whoever it was that wrote Sabrina Fair. Shaw pops up, too, the moment that anyone out front starts to talk about money...
...Catered Affair (MGM) is another Bronx cheer, more affectionate than derisive, for the marital problems of the lower middle class. Like the Oscar-winning Marty (TIME, April 18, 1955), the film was originally a TV play by Paddy Chayefsky, the troubadour of the tenements, and it has much the same shirtsleeved intimacy and gamy humor...
Despite the skimpiness of plot, Adapter Gore Vidal has kept Chayefsky's sharply observed vignettes of Bronx life. Oscar-winning Actor Borgnine, probably the most resourceful character man in films, has no difficulty appearing older than Bette Davis (actually he is 39; she is 48), and his anguish as the hard-earned dollars are squandered is so real it hurts. The Bronx locutions are sometimes too much for Actress Davis, but, as always, she has power to spare in her performance. Barry Fitzgerald, as a crotchety uncle, hams it up and seems to be looking expectantly in each scene...
Falange Presidential Candidate Oscar Unzaga de la Vega charged that President Victor Paz Estenssoro's National Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.) had rigged election lists, confiscated Falange ballots and hindered the Falange campaign. Retorted the M.N.R. weekly Combate: Unzaga gave up simply because he realized he could not win. To be on the safe side, the government moved 3,000 militiamen into La Paz before election day, just in case the opposition tried to turn default into revolt...
...rate of 1,000 a week, letters come in to let the Voice know it is being heard: New Zealand ("I have yet to hear a slush-pump [trombone] player who sends me more than Miff Mole"), Switzerland ("Thank you, Angel, for Oscar Petersen's Tenderly"), Poland ("more jamba, boogie"). No letters have been received from Russia, but Manager King heard the program while visiting Moscow and suspects that it is being taped for the benefit of Russian jazzmen who want to learn U.S. arrangements. In Hungary the Voice learned that there is a jazz band that tapes...