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Real objects and real people are enigmas to Billy. He loathes his job at Shadrack and Duxbury, an undertaking firm. He yearns to go off to London and become a scriptwriter before Mr. Shad-rack closes in on him about the postage money he has pilfered. Girls are a problem too. He is engaged to Rita and Barbara, but loves his beatnik playmate Liz, portrayed by Julie Christie, an actress so brimful of careless charm that she parlays a few brief scenes into instant stardom...
...typical of the man who has never wholly deserted childhood. If he has his nightmares, they are quickly over, for his very next painting will brim with laughter. Even his barbarian hordes seem a trifle whimsical, as if they were spooks that a child might see in the shad ows. Just as the image refuses to be itself, so the emotion refuses to stay still -and that is the effect Ernst is after. "Birds become men," he once explained, "and men become birds. Catastrophes become hilarious. Everything is astonishing, heart breaking and possible...
...turn, that just before last week's election he announced over the radio that he would vote for his organist opponent himself. He could well afford the gesture; of all Africa's political figures, none except the Emperor of Ethiopia has shown greater staying power than "Shad" Tubman...
...news on a fast-coming "family western" called The Rifleman, is a smiling Irish plow chaser who carries the biggest weapon seen so far on the small screen: a full-length .44-.40 1892 Winchester carbine, which he twirls like a pistol. Fortunately, the man is so shad-bellied tall that he can spin the barrel under his arm without scraping his armpit. Raised in Brooklyn, Chuck spent six years in minor-league ball, wound up with the Los Angeles Angels in 1952 (batted .321, hit 23 homers). When he walked in to try out for Rifleman, the director suddenly...
...Basie (Paul Quinichette, tenor sax; Shad Collins, trumpet; Nat Pierce, piano; Freddie Greene, guitar; Walter Page, bass; Jo Jones, drums; Prestige). "Count don't play nothin'," said a Basie veteran once, "but it sure sounds good." This nostalgic album is a fine reminder of what that line meant. The selection of five Basie classics (including Texas Shuffle and Diggin' for Dex) is taken from the period 1937 to 1941 and played by three veterans of the Basie rhythm section...