Word: robotized
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...neurosis. She is inspiringly alienated, for that sturdy cliché dissolves into a rich flow of images that astonish the eye. At one moment, a street scene goes entirely grey-including a vendor, his cart, fruit and all. When Vitti awakes in panic at night to find a toy robot clacking around her glacially modern home as though it had a will of its own, the very walls become terrifying abstractions. And her fear of separateness is made subtly palpable on the quay where a mist isolates her from husband, lover and friends...
From the dance of the rusty robot to Ray Bolger's tumbling scarecrow and Bert Lahr's campy lion, the children will greet most of it with a knowing and unexcited air. When Judy Garland sang Over the Rainbow last year, a three-year-old female sophisticate said: "She always wears her hair in braids, you know." But Judy's Dorothy, as a matter of surprising fact, is not the uppermost character in the children's minds any more. To them, she is just another frosted cornflake...
...aerospace scientists, she is for the moment on loan to a psychiatrist (Bob Cummings), who keeps her in his apartment. She will do anything he tells her to do, and when she doesn't under stand him, she says, "That does not compute." Curiously enough, this remarkably human robot is being played by Julie Newmar, and typecasting has rarely had a brighter hour. A strong-minded, singleminded, career-minded girl with a unique sense of humor, Julie speaks in terse, direct and sometimes disarming sentences that seem to have been programmed on punch cards that say PLEASE...
...play her, the robot is coming closer to the ideal in humanity, and the humans around it are becoming more and more like robots." Fresh Ears. Unmarried and 29, Julie used to sleep in her dressing room until Desilu studios told her they were not insured; now she has a flat across the street from the studio gate. She is on the set at 6:30 every morning, a half-hour before her call. On weekends, she goes home to her parents. Her father was once a professional football player and is now a teacher at Los Angeles City College...
...Round, she won a Tony award for standing on the stage dressed only in a towel and begging Charles Boyer, as a brilliant professor, to unite his mighty mens sana with her massive corpore sano. She brings the same sort of ingenuous sexuality to her role as a TV robot, managing the difficult trick of being comical and at the same time alluring enough to start the Colossus of Rhodes off his blocks...