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...Scarlet Letter. A tightly packed and emotional version of the Hawthorne novel, dubiously referred to as a classic of American literature. Lillian "the It Girl" Gish shines as the Puritan wife who bears the local pastor's child, for she was one of the artists of the silent film who practiced the ultimate in method acting: no words at all. Channel...
...dies and gentillllmen: the Greatest Show on Earrth!" Charlton Heston, dressed in black boots, white pants, scarlet coat and top hat, was kicking off the celebrity-filled first night of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey in Los Angeles. Walter Matthau turned up as one of the clowns. "I was raised in an orphanage, and I went to the circus for the first time when I was twelve," Matthau recalled. "It was one of the happiest times of my childhood." Matthau's son Charlie, 10, was crowned King of the Circus. Then came the grand parade of elephants with spangled...
...scarlet robes, looking small and bent in the vast nave of London's Westminster Cathedral, was Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, 81. For many of his fellow Hungarian exiles, the frail figure celebrating Mass for them remained an abiding symbol of the cold war. In 1949 Mindszenty was convicted of treason, espionage and black marketing by the Communist regime in Hungary. He spent seven years in solitary confinement, enjoyed four days of freedom during the uprising in 1956 and then, when the Russians returned, remained for 15 more years in seclusion in the U.S. embassy. Since 1971, the former Primate...
INTERVAL is a kind of vanity production produced by and starring Merle Oberon, 62. She has had finer moments (Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Pimpernel). Miss Oberon is always being consulted on such questions as "How do you feel about love?" "Have you ever made love without love?" - and is in turn forever dispensing bits of Mary Worth wisdom like "We're all caught in the same interval between being born and dying." A feckless young artist (Robert Wolders) is unaccountably smitten by her, and they begin one of those romances that require them to wander around...
...sexual promiscuity, when it existed at all, resulted as much from the expectations of the adult world as it did from liberated libidos. Still a self-conscious virgin when she first arrived at Yale, she asked herself, "How has it happened, what have we come to, that the scarlet letter these days isn't Abut...