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...Freeman's hard-driving pace has brought him an ulcer and a spastic colon, and he sips milk and buttermilk at his desk to quiet his innards. Occasionally a spasm comes upon him, and he has to lie down on a couch in his office, rigid as a rake handle...
...custom stale his infinite sameness. In 1962 he is essentially what he was in 1950, when he made his last movie. He is Jimmy, a quite ordinary little fellow who looks slightly confused and absurdly belligerent, as though in total darkness he had stepped on the teeth of a rake, and the handle had popped up and hit him in the nose, and there he stands, punching wildly and wondering why he isn't hitting anybody. But as a comedian Jimmy is not in the least confused: he is the master of a style much subtler than it seems...
...interest that a song called In the Bright Mohawk Valley migrated west from stream to stream, new title to new title, until it settled down in the Red River Valley as a Western woman's torch song for her cowboy-errant. Similarly, a British ballad called The Unfortunate Rake, about a soldier dying of syphilis, went through several mutations before it traveled to Texas and became the national anthem of the trackless range, The Streets of Laredo...
...Girl with the Golden Eyes. When a rake and a dyke fall in love with the same girl, almost anything can happen, and practically everything does in Jean-Gabriel Albicocco's skillful but vicieuse version of a tale by Balzac...
...Girl with the Golden Eyes. When a rake and a dyke fall in love with the same girl, almost anything can happen, and practically everything does in Jean-Gabriel Albicocco's skillful but vicieuse version of a tale by Balzac...