Word: siam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...usable domestic subject matter, other new entries like ABC's Paul Lynde Show and CBS's Bob Newhart Show extend the already overextended tradition of stale sitcoms-symptoms of TV's banal-retention syndrome. More colorful, if not more original, is Anna and the King (of Siam) on CBS. It has the benefit of Samantha Eggar in the Gertrude Lawrence-Deborah Kerr role, and Yul Brynner in the Yul Brynner-Yul Brynner role, even if it does make the Orient all too scrutable...
Also on CBS, Anna and the King of Siam, which has seen every other incarnation, will turn up as a series called Anna and the King. The schoolteacher will be played by Samantha Eggar; the King by the actor who took the role in Broadway and film musicals and seems to hold a patent on it: Yul Brynner...
Perhaps the most incredible episode comes when, after dragging three crewmen behind the Vance in the speedboat at 15 knots--very nearly drowning all three--Arnheiter leaves them in the Gulf of Siam to surveil a Vietnamese junk he suspects is spotting for a Chinese submarine reported to be in the area. Set adrift, the men try to raise the Vance on the radio; but Arnheiter has sailed out of range. Suddenly they spot a plane, an American plane. It drops down for a look at the junk and finds also a 16-foot speedboat with shark's teeth painted...
...American mythologizing ever further, since it concentrates on an imaginative recreation of the grand old frontier, featuring life-like animatronic grizzly bears. Furthermore, two new major attractions have recently opened up. One, "It's a Small World," has extraordinary power to awaken certain childhood stereotypes of foreign lands, like Siam, Persia, or China. But even better is the Haunted House. In this house, foot-high three-dimensional translucent women wail for demon lovers, tombstones topple over revealing their gruesome contents--the entire effect alternates between mild hysteria and wondering how those full size three dimensional ghosts are done. But Disney...
Morris Renek is one of those rare novelists with the ability to take overly familiar scenes of city life and infuse them with fresh vitality. In The Big Hello, he explored with remarkable humor a middle-aged Jew's bumbling attempt at divorce. In Siam Miami, the passionate subject was a stardom-bound girl singer's fight against the sleazy power brokers of pop music. In his third novel, Renek tackles with gusto yet another conventional modern situation-a young man's rage against life in the ghetto. This one happens to be the old-fashioned Jewish...