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...John Huston for Moby Dick. In other categories they differed. Best Actor: Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life (Critics), Yul Brynner in The King and I, Anastasia and The Ten Commandments (Board). Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia (Critics), Dorothy McGuire in Friendly Persuasion (Board). Best Screenwriter: S. J. Perelman for Around the World (Critics only). Best foreign film: La Strada (Critics), The Silent World (Board...
...Perelman's script*moreover, is a deft, witty spoof of Verne's book, which in turn was a spoof of the English, so that the moviegoer often experiences the refined pleasures of laughing at a man who is laughing at somebody else. The main roles are competently carried out by David Niven, Shirley MacLaine and the late Robert Newton, and most of the big stars are effectively scattered about the picture, like sequins on an elephant. But the star of stars is the famous Mexican comic, Cantinflas. In his first U.S. movie, he gives delightful evidence that...
...Potter's good taste and wide reading, but of little else. It is a tribute to Potter's prestige that such a book has been published and sold. I think now that he has broken the ice that we may expect a "From Bunyan to Benchley" from S. J. Perelman, and soon after that, "Two-Line Jokes Which I Have Liked Best," by Bob Hope...
...Thoreau, the sharp and pessimistic but compassionate wit of Twain, Lardner, and Marquis, the enthusiasm of Whitman, the highly developed awareness of fantasy and symbolism of Melville, James, and Faulkner, the sense of social forces of Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Steinbeck, and the linguistic facility of Thurber and Perelman. Add to this the satiric ability of George Orwell...
...kind of magazine he wanted. In the first year and a half alone, about 100 staffers were fired, many with a muttered apology from Ross: "We need geniuses here." Gradually Ross found what he needed: James Thurber, E. B. White, Ogden Nash, John O'Hara, S. J. Perelman, Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, 0. Soglow...