Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seesaw. Love comes to Gittel Moscowitz in a pretty funny film version of William Gibson's play about what happens when a blue-eyed Babbitt from Omaha meets a blackstocking in Greenwich Village...
...Seesaw. Love comes to Gittel Moscowitz in a pretty funny film version of William Gibson's play about what happens when a blue-eyed Babbitt from Omaha meets a blackstocking in Greenwich Village...
...Sept. 3, the Allies cross from Sicily; on Sept. 8, the Badoglio government surrenders; on Sept. 10, the Germans start to take over; on Sept. 12, Mussolini escapes and sets up as a German puppet. Like most of his countrymen Lieut. Alberto Innocenzi (Alberto Sordi) gets dizzy on the seesaw of events...
...Seesaw. Gittel Moscowitz is a slob. Also a kook. Number one, she lives in the Village and looks it. She is 29 but she still wears ballet flats, black tights and bulky knits, and her hair is like something she maybe found under a bed. Add to which she is having her second ulcer and living on cottage cheese, as everybody can plainly see from the mess on the front of her bulky knit. But Gittel has a career. She is known as Gittel Mosca on the stage-of the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. Gittel has push. For years she picked...
...Seesaw has its ups and downs, among them MacLaine and Mitchum. On Broadway, Anne Bancroft opened her veins and transfused the audience with hot red gouts of life and laughter; in the film, MacLaine turns on her talent like a spigot, and out comes a cooler flow of charm and humor. On Broadway, Henry Fonda was a mirror skillfully held to reflect the heroine; in the film, Mitchum is just another blank wall in her cold-water flat. Still and all, in the passage from Broadway to Hollywood, not too much of the Gibson has been spilled...