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...Husband Eddie Fisher, to accept her Best Actress award (nominally for the margarinal Butterfield 8 but actually, wise guys said for the pneumonia and for such past successes as Suddenly, Last Summer). Upstaged, Burt Lancaster meekly mumbled off with his Best Actor award (for Elmer Gantry). Earlier, Peter Ustinov (Spartacus) had received the award for Best Supporting Actor and had made the evening's only parsable acceptance speech Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry) won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and deserved another for her who-would-have-thought-that-little-me acceptance...
...bachelor splendor in Georgetown among his parakeets and treasured antiques. Fortnight ago, the President went hiking with the Chattanooga Times's Pulitzer Prizewinner Charles Bartlett, whose wife is John Jr.'s godmother. Last week he took off on a spur-of-the-moment trip to the movies (Spartacus) with old Navy Buddy Paul B. Fay Jr. (now Under Secretary of the Navy). Kennedy's Choate roommate, K. Le Moyne Billings, now a Manhattan adman, comes and goes like a member of the family. So does husky Georgetown Artist Bill Walton, who befriended Jackie during her days...
...campus conservatives subdivide into roughly three groups. On the far right is a small fringe of shouting, demonstrating fanatics who admire the late Joe McCarthy, favor colonialism, back such causes as the "right" to exclude Negroes from certain neighborhoods, demand that students sign loyalty oaths, picket the movies Spartacus and Exodus because Dalton Trumbo (TIME, Jan. 2) wrote them. They take as their philosopher Novelist Ayn (Atlas Shrugged) Rand, who for a brooch wears a gold dollar sign to symbolize the values of selfcenteredness. On the other end of the spectrum are Kennedy supporters who find in the President...
Most renowned of the Hollywood Ten -writers cited in 1947 for contempt of Congress after refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee if they had ever been Communists-Trumbo also wrote the recent, $12-million Spartacus, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have to strain to avoid awarding him an Oscar next spring. In both Spartacus and Exodus, Trumbo turned rambling, middle-grade raw material into tight and excellent scripts, lightened with humor and touched with irony...
...SPARTACUS. Director Stanley Kubrick and Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo, in adapting the tragedy of the heroic slave to Super-Technirama 70 and the various other disadvantages of a $12 million budget, have managed to achieve that happy contradiction in cinema terms, an intelligent spectacle...