Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Something More! threatens to make the sleeping pill obsolete, it does shake itself awake for two stage-splintering dance numbers featuring a pair of agile Corybantes, Paula Kelly and Jo Jo Smith. It is dispiriting to watch Arthur Hill and Barbara Cook, as novelist and wife, dutifully pouring their talents into such hackwork, but the job promises to be mercifully transient...
Chevalier is sly and charming as the invalid invalid. Gingold is pure gold as his nutty nurse, a suspicious spinster who sleeps with a large sheepdog in her bed and keeps giving her patient ambiguous invitations-"If you want a pill," she murmurs, "call me." Fast company, that, but Goulet somehow contrives to stay with the pace. And Williams, a young singer who looks like Bing Crosby and sounds like several other people, carries off the wackiest sequences in the picture...
...Interns. Is there a doctor in the house? These days there usually is, and usually he's on the screen. U.S. moviemakers, struck by the popularity of TV programs about physicians and by the international success of some British medicomedies, all too often call in a pill pusher to remedy the money megrims. And the remedy often works. In 1962 The Interns, a patent preparation that cost less than $2,000,000 to manufacture, was one of Columbia's major moneymakers...
There is, however, some sugar on the pill. The action is feverish and the interns sometimes leave the customers in stitches. But for the most part, the picture is an exploratory operation conducted, alas, without anesthesia...
Champion of Freedom. Cushing has become a champion of freedom within the church. He tacitly allowed Dr. John Rock, a communicant of the Boston archdiocese, to argue for the moral licitness of a birth-control pill. He welcomed Swiss Theologian Hans Küng, one of Europe's most advanced Catholic thinkers, to Boston, and wrote a preface for Küng's latest book, Structures of the Church. Cushing says that the Index of Forbidden Books is "meaningless," and "they should get rid of the whole thing." He wants to drop the promises that non-Catholic partners...