Word: pajamaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blankets leading toward the john. Therein he groped for the drinking glass, but remembered that his roommate had dropped it the day before. He noticed blood pumping from a deep gash in his foot. He somehow got the shaving cream can backwards, and squirted his eye, dropped his pajama bottoms in surprise, lost his balance, and fell into the shower...
While it suffers from being more didactic than the play, the movie most conspicuously lacks the understatement which the play's single set for instance, made possible. The camera ranges after Tom as he goes to the beach, the golf course, the school pajama party, and even to the rooms of Ellie, the local prostitute. The difference is that the movie's director, Vincente Minelli, seems intent to extract every bit of emotion, or--as the ads suggest--"sensitivity" from events that were only spoken of in the play. The apparent eagerness of both the writer and the director...
...people, the schoolmaster's self-doubt--which, in the play, made him human and even sympathetic--is hardly apparent. Similarly, as Tom Lee, John Kerr cannot give his part the truth it had in the original. Though the adaptation adds to his role a suicide attempt and a pajama fight, he is somewhat wooden; and his awkwardnesses are not those of a boy since he seems, and is, much older than 18. Only Deborah Kerr, as Laura Reynolds, gives her role real depth, and suggests, as the others don't, the loneliness they all share...
...keep his empire expanding, McMahon during the last two years has spent almost as much time in Texas, Wall Street and Washington as in Calgary. No man to overlook a good investment wherever he is, McMahon helped back two Broadway musicals (Pajama Game, Plain and Fancy), turned a fat profit on both. Last week Millionaire McMahon took time off to be married to onetime Hearst Columnist Betty Betz, 36 (each for the second time), whom he met two years...
Died. Jerry Ross (real name: Jerold Rosenberg), 29, composer-lyricist who with Richard Adler was Broadway's hottest new songwriting team (Pajama Game, Damn Yankees); of bronchiectasis, a lung ailment; in Manhattan. Since 1950 Ross and Adler, each contributing both words and music, have turned out more than 250 songs. Notable hits: Hernando's Hideaway; Whatever Lola Wants; Hey, There; Heart...