Word: samsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoke stalwart Victor Mature, whose musculature has beefed up three of Hollywood's Bible epics (Samson and Delilah, The Robe, Demetrius and the Gladiators). "By pretending to know 'inside hot stuff' on the private lives of some stars, this man Shuler shows himself completely devoid of charity. It's a pretty un-Christian thing...
Hilda Crane (20th Century-Fox) was originally a series of short stories about an aging and raddled Manhattan career girl who tries to settle down to the straight and narrow in her old home town. In 1950 Author Samson Raphaelson adapted his theme to a Broadway play, starring Jessica Tandy as the lady who finds an overdose of sleeping pills easier to take than smalltown living...
...Hoffmann, first produced in 1881, four months after Offenbach's death, was a smash. The French, who wisely distrust overly sweet wines, have always had a weakness for sweet opera, and much of Hoffmann fits into the sucre fashion of Gounod's Faust, Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, etc. When it tries to get serious, it often just turns watery. But the score, if well played, always bubbles with its own kind of wit and Gallic lyricism...
...landscape like mothballs at a spring cleaning, while Errol proves, as always, a beryl in peril. He loses nothing but his mustache-but then, what is Errol Flynn without his mustache? As he comes up for the final clinch with the heroine (Joanne Dru), he looks as sapless as Samson on the morning after his lawn was mowed. Or maybe it is only that Errol, at 46, is getting a little old for this sort of thing. So is his public...
Around Gaza, where Samson lost his eyes, transgressions multiplied past Biblical number last week. The blazing religious nationalisms of Egypt and Israel burst out in the bloodiest border fighting since the 1949 armistice...