Word: reede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OLIVER! Dickens' reformist outrage is gone, but in its place are some lovely period costumes, some excellent songs by Lionel Bart, and a collection of perfectly stunning sets designed by John Box. Carol Reed directs a large cast (including Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Mark Lester as Oliver) with wizardly precision...
OLIVER. A gleaming Christmas package of a musical. Dickens' reformist outrage is gone, but in its place are some lovely period costumes, some excellent songs by Lionel Bart and a collection of perfectly stunning sets designed by John Box. Carol Reed directs a large cast (including Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Mark Lester as Oliver) with wizardry precision...
...Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church by the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Julie wanted the wedding to be quiet, private and as small as possible. Only 500 family and friends were at the church, while Ike and Mamie watched over closed-circuit TV from his suite at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The only departure from the script came when Julie kissed her dad before she kissed David. Then it was off south for Christmas with her parents at Key Biscayne and a short secret honeymoon (most likely in the Bahamas) before the youngsters head back...
Before flying off to visit troops in Viet Nam, Evangelist Billy Graham paid a call at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for a few words with former President Dwight Eisenhower. As Graham recalls it, Ike had a message for the G.I.s, delivered with tears streaming down his cheeks: "You're going to Viet Nam. Tell those doughboys that here at Walter Reed is an old soldier pulling for them and praying for them." Said Graham: "I was touched. I had never seen him cry before...
...Fagin, Ron Moody makes the beaky, sneaky old vulture a tragicomic creature whose greatest thievery is that of the film. If he has lost most of the Semitism, Moody also has dropped all of the anti. Harry Secombe is the endomorphic Mr. Bumble to the burble, and Oliver Reed is appropriately thick and menacing as Bill Sikes...