Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (3, last week) 2. A Shade of Difference, Drury (1) 3. Seven Days in May,. Knebel and Bailey (2) 4. Ship of Fools, Porter (4) 5. Genius, Dennis (6) 6. $100 Misunderstanding, Gover 7. The Prize, Wallace (9) 8. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Jackson 9. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (8) 10. Where Love Has Gone, Robbins...
...Ship of Fools, Porter...
...Porter's acceptable story (he contributes two) he calls "The Devil Will Spank" which despite a lurid obsession with the imperfections in children's teeth and hair has its charming moments. I wish he would not pause so long to build up great tortuous heaps of detail before allowing his children to move; the story emerges as a photograph of huge, static, concrete set-pieces...
...more than look good: she brought onto the stage with her an air of graceful authority and confidence that almost managed to give the unhappy crew around her guts enough to say their corny lines and sing their tuneless songs. Unfortunately, as Ninotchka she is the victim of Porter's wretched book; most of the charming little conte the old movie told has been cut away, including the cultivated and charming character of her paramour (played, in the film, by Melvyn Douglas); poor Ninotchka, it appears, has been kept on to provide an excuse for calling Silk Stockings an "adaptation...
...major faults are Porter's; if Ninotchka was a successful spoof of the Russians 25 years ago, a lot of its crude anti-Soviet humor (reference is made to an epic "Ode to a Tractor") is only crude today. Someone made an odd choice in selecting Silk Stockings, and perhaps they've done as well by it as anyone could. But the charm of this year's Drumbeats show is all Pat Fay's--and the excitement of the production is in its color and gaiety, not in any substance...