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...journalist, can Jang out a newspaper column for years in an average daily elapsed time of eleven minutes (so Newspaperman Ruark has coasted; one suspects the creative memory is an aid in recounting the feat). Or he can put together two volumes of yarns about his boyhood and overgrown-boyhood that have the virtues, and all of the faults, of good, whiskyish, late-evening reminiscence...
Then in 1955 he came across the 500-acre tract in Rondonia, an overgrown remainder of a busted boom in wild, natural rubber. "I wanted that land so bad my head boiled over" he recalls. He got it on time payments for a price estimated at less than 25? an acre, left his wife and three sons in São Paulo and moved in to make something...
Never on Sunday. A seeming reroast of an old chestnut-the tale of reformer being reformed himself by a warmhearted prostitute-ends up a savory satire full of animal spirits and earthy humor. Director Jules (He Who Must Die) Dassin also plays the overgrown American boy scout, opposite mercurial Melina Mercouri's invincible Greek strumpet...
Never on Sunday. A seeming reroast of an old chestnut-the tale of reformer being reformed himself by a warmhearted prostitute-ends up a savory satire full of animal spirits and earthy humor. Director Jules (He Who Must Die) Dassin also plays the overgrown American boy scout, opposite mercurial Melina Mercouri's invincible Greek strumpet...
...building with which Rudolph feels he really hit his stride is the new $1,100,000 Sarasota (Fla.) High School. "A school should be a real expression of what the community thinks," he says, "not an overgrown cottage or a motel...