Word: slobbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still an ignorant slob," she insists with a belligerence that suggests she intends to remain just that. But she strives mightily to make herself over, with psychiatry, acting lessons, voice lessons (she hopes to do a musical next). Twice a week she still goes to Manhattan's Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation to work with blind disturbed children. It seems almost by design that she has little time left for dates, except for her platonic friendship with the Three Bears-the fatherly trio of Penn, Coe and Gibson-and with a couple of boys from the Actors...
Robin Howard (Josie) and David Hooks (Jim) lack the aptitude for character work that these early scenes demand, and Michael Murray's direction, competent for the most part, does not make good the deficiency. Miss Howard works at being a great big slob with more assiduity than conviction. Mr. Hooks, charged with the equally difficult task of erecting a convincing facade around Jim's lunar desolation, elects a vaudeville entertainer's spring step and circus-barker patter; but it is the actor, not the character, who seems not quite able to bring...
...vividly apparent in Observations, a sort of peeping tome in which Photographer Richard Avedon's pictures are discussed by Author Truman Capote. Unfortunately, Capote writes in a style that combines the worst features of Henry James, Dorothy Kilgallen, and deb talk (says he of Marilyn Monroe: "Just a slob really: an untidy divinity-in the sense that a banana split or a cherry jubilee is untidy but divine"). But Avedon's pictures have the poignancy, and sometimes the pettiness, of inspired gossip. He is at home in a theatrical world where statement is overstatement, appearance is reality, personality...
...does it matter very much that the gutter gags had to be cleaned up, that the Jewish humor is sacrificed to the self-conscious contemporary convention that seldom allows so much as a smile with a racial or religious twist. Although the word is taboo, the poor exploited slob who ghosted Sammy's screenplays is still a nebbish; every now and then, Blyden's voice echoes with accurate Lower East Side accents...
...cant; when she died of meningitis, "I believed that I had paid for my own freedom with her death." And then there was Stépha. pert. Polish and feminine, who taught Simone to look at love more realistically and also to look in the mirror. Simone was a slob. She admits: "I hardly ever brushed my teeth and never cleaned my nails." Stépha played Professor Higgins to Simone's Eliza Doolittle. After Stépha's grooming, Simone was ready to be Professor Sartre's fair lady...