Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andrea Doria's radar picked up the outbound Stockholm (which he did not identify) on the radar screen about 17 miles off Dona's starboard bow. He and his officers watched her closing rapidly, although they did not plot her course. When the ships were three to four miles apart, said the captain, he ordered a 4° turn to port to leave more passing room (see cut). Calamai insisted that the ships were steaming thus starboard to starboard, whereas the Swedes insist that they were port to port. When Stockholm was two miles off and still closing...
British tongues wagged about Sir Laurence Olivier and Cinemorsel Marilyn Monroe, who were busy kissing from right after breakfast one morning until suppertime. It was not private smooching, but a scene, slated to grace the screen for only a few seconds, shot repeatedly for their new movie, The Sleeping Prince. The buss marathon was played big by most of Britain's daily press. A thoughtful columnist ventured an analysis of what had prolonged the action: "Marilyn -so used to the torrid clinches of Hollywood films-was nervous of the more elegant style of Olivier. She giggled coyly -and fluffed...
...Sympathy concerns a prep school housemaster and his wife and a student whose name is Tom Lee. Both tell of the suffering felt especially by these three when the boy is accused homosexuality. But the resemblance doesn't go too far. The people who adapted the play to the screen--including Robert Anderson, the playwright and now the script writer--have succeeded in making the prejudices which victimized the boy appear ridiculous. The result of their diligence is a movie that is limited by this intention. The film is uncomfortable to watch and its characters are often untrue...
Though the stars are the same and the playwright wrote the script himself, the movie has lost the play's subtlety and charm. Metrocolor, the wide screen, and a new ending don't add much to what is left of Tea and Sympathy...
Lust for Life. Perhaps the finest film biography of an artist (Vincent van Gogh) ever made in Hollywood; almost a hundred of Van Gogh's paintings are shown in full, fulminating color on the screen; with Kirk Douglas (TIME, Sept...