Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...copies of his books had been sold, his plays were performed worldwide, his work had led to several memorable movies, and some 80 of his short stories had been adapted for television. At his famous Villa Mauresque, he employed one of the best cooks on the Riviera, dined off silver plates and entertained royalty. Yet he was miserable. What was wrong? Everything. Or so this instructive and melancholy memoir by Nephew Robin Maugham would have us believe...
Adam's Rib and Woman of the Year-Of all the Tracy-Hepburn films, these two are probably the best. What is there to say about the greatest couple ever to hit the silver screen? If you haven't seen it, go, although if you wait long enough you'll see them on the Late Show one night. Hepburn as a career woman and Tracy as her jealous, decidedly unliberated husband are not to be missed...
...character's mellowness. In her first meeting with Viola, her veil is too transparent, but her timing in this scene is masterly. And on first seeing the twins together she can put a world of meaning into her exclamation, "Most wonderful." If Penny Fuller's Olivia at Startford is silver-plated, Conolly's here is pure gold...
Beatty seems to have become the perpetual adolescent of the film industry--the Mick Jagger of the silver screen. His adamant refusal to grow up and be serious is admittedly rather charmingly contagious and his ebullient, almost Byronic self-absorption displayed in his latest performances is actually an amusing parody of the character type portrayed in Carly Simon's You're So Vain. Beatty was rumored to be the most likely candidate as the real-life model for the song's supremely narcissistic hero. He can't seem to shake off his reputation as an obsessed Casanova, pursuing several women...
...first-prize gold medal. In what can only be called the year of the strings for America, Elmar Oliveira, 28, of Binghamton, N.Y., shared a gold medal in the violin division with the Soviet Union's Ilya Grubert; Violinist Dylana Jenson, only 17, shared a second-place silver medal, and Daniel Heifetz shared fourth-place violin honors. It was the U.S.'s most impressive showing ever; its only other gold medals went to Pianist Van Cliburn in the first competition, held in 1958, and to Soprano Jane Marsh...