Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jean Boyer's direction is a bit frenetic, and it is easy--albeit not too disturbing--to lose track of the girls' identity in the general shuffle. An engaging film with few pretensions, My Seven Little Sins will probably amuse a person who thinks the title a clever play on words...
...massive (5 ft. 10 in., 222 Ibs.) in appearance as a Kodiak bear, as styleconscious as any one of the World's Ten Best-Dressed Women. "A stylist," says Walker, "has got to show style in his cars, in his home, his clothes and his person." He even smells stylish, slathering on Fabergé cologne so liberally that it lingers on long after he leaves the room. He owns 40 pairs of shoes (at $60 a pair), 70 suits, once had Saks make up four "cocktail suits" (at $250 apiece) in white with blue braid, white with black braid...
Thus Williams's decision to present the reading in the first person, that is, I am Dylan Thomas and I am going to tell you about my boyhood, works only to his disadvantage. His style and personality seem so different from Thomas's; he lacks that sense of bitterness and pain that makes one feel that not only was Thomas bitingly ironic about the world, but also critical of his criticism of it. Thomas's readings transmitted the presence of a naked and passionate soul which Mr. Williams cannot hope to convey. Williams as entertainer seems to over-ride Thomas...
...them. They have not yet been approached by Soviet agents who have been trying to persuade some refugees to return, but they wish they would be. "I wish I could talk to one, so there would be one less alive," Julius says. Another refugee says glintingly, "If such a person approached me, he wouldn't survive too long. I have a little energy I would like to expend...
...book is a raggedly plotted novel whose first-person heroine, Sister Ursula, obviously walks in the footsteps of Monica Baldwin. Unhappily, Author Baldwin's story of a nun who misjudges her vocation also treads close on the path of Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's Story, and by comparison comes off secondbest. Such fascination as it has lies in the book's embittered documentation of a nun's daily round and the romantic-escapist character of Sister Ursula who acts like an adolescent schoolgirl at the stage door of heaven waiting...