Word: samantha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Actress Samantha Eggar took hers to her wedding-he sat in the front pew on the "bride's side." Lady Beatty's got bundled off on the honeymoon as well. Actor Paul Scofield confesses to having stolen one. The King of Thailand has taken his along on state visits. All are participants in what British Actor Peter Bull describes as "the vast underground Teddy-bear movement which exists in the adult world...
...swing back to the situation comedy and, for action, to the less lethal lawyers, teachers and, especially, doctors. Sex is out, but procreation is certainly in. The eight new situation comedies will introduce at least eleven kids among them, and some of the holdover shows are hugely pregnant. Samantha in Bewitched will bear her second child in November; Agents 86 and 99 in Get Smart are expecting twins...
...Samantha Jones, a Canadian, did some modeling in Paris after dropping out of the University of Toronto. Her greatest adventure was a disappointing visit to the Dalai Lama: "He didn't tell me anything...
...washed in the gideon colors of Dream. The salient elements of Dream are speed and deliberation. Desire approximates both. The plot careens arrogantly through a disequence of scenes, no connections provided: the junkyard; Twelvetrees in a hallway, in a bathroom; Anastasia on a long walk; Twelvetrees making love to Samantha; Blaine in his telephone booth. If we seize on any pattern, it may be a crazy spiral about Anastasia herself, about her diffuse Presence. But "spiral" promises too much. Montage is better, montage through time (close your eyes and picture Dream), fishcakes, a patchwork of dreams, none preparing...
...motorcycle idles along for ninety seconds, a dull out-of-focus journey, a bum trip. In another scene six consecutive point-of-view shots reach for tedium. But the hiatus of time often catches qualities unnoticed by a tick-tock eye. A long closeup--almost a still--of Samantha's fragile face penetrates to the madonna calm and compassion she possesses. The epiphany is not just the result of Maeve Kinkead's fine acting. Hunter takes the time to look, really look--and we see. When Anastasia washes body paint off her legs, the marijuana camera stops time to absorb...