Word: parrish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1930s and early '40s; of cancer; in Manhattan. Talking movies were still in their infancy in 1929 when Kay, already established on Broadway, gave the industry a boost by bringing beauty, elegance and warmth to some 50 films (One Way Passage, Trouble in Paradise, I Found Stella Parrish...
Grudging Desegregation. Said a woman at Louisville Memorial Hospital: "Without Medicare, I'd probably have stayed home to die. There's no other way I could afford this care." Says Walter Parrish, 68, of Marysville, Calif.: "I was against Medicare at first-sounded too much like socialism. Then last year I was in the hospital for ten days with a bill of over $700, and-again this year for 23 days. Now I know what it costs to be sick...
...Bobo is another movie in which Peter Sellers' comic gifts lose out to Technicolor. A comedian is not an object to be photographed from all angles like a fancy be-ribboned package. That fact escapes Robert Parrish, the director. Since he can't quite make Sellers a thing of beauty, he places him in a whirl of chi-chi clothes and Spanish opulence, occasionally adding a flamenco dancer. In case Sellers still sticks out as a funny man, Parrish drowns him in Exodus sound...
...little Parrish cares about laughter when you count up his attempts at wit and find that none is original. He opens with a aerial view of an electricity tower rising next to a statue of a Catholic saint--just like the opening of La Dolce Vita where a helicopter swoops over skyscrapers with a piece of saintly statuary roped to its belly. Unfortunately, Parrish steals the shot without understanding...
...explain modern man's existence satisfactorily, he needs a new explanation. But instead of struggling toward it, he collapses into a coma. Society caters to the comatose state with push buttons, sunglasses, cars that ride without jolting you, and a vacant-eyed model as the symbol of womanhood. Parrish should think twice before shoplifting from the enemy camp...