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Each year, Italy's Automaestro Enzo Ferrari brings his high-whining, finely tuned racing instruments to Florida for the Sebring Twelve Hour Endurance Race. Each year, with splendid monotony, they mop up everything but the oil on the track. When onetime Racing Driver Carroll Shelby decided in 1961 to challenge the master with a cannibalized machine of his own devising - a brutish Ford engine* jammed into a bulging A.C. Bristol body - the Monster of Maranello smiled a fine Italian smile. Last year on this concrete and blacktop track, three of the six Shelby Cobras entered broke down; highest Cobra...
...have switched roles. "I couldn't get along without you," Tony whines. And his manservant snarls back: "Then go and get me a glass of brandy-don't just stand there, go and get it!" Another offbeat episode has Tony and Barrett locked up in splendid squalor, playing hide-and-seek and squabbling like schoolgirls. After that, a final orgy seems tame, even pointless...
...immigrants and that we all came here looking for something." The pity is that he does not begin to make explicit what that something is. As a scenerio writer, Kazan fails to communicate the dreamlike lure America holds for the foreign-born. Facts come through with splendid candor, but the feelings lie mute in family legend...
Blushing Raves. Dennis does have something undeniably magnetic. She made a splendid young social worker in 1962 with Jason Robards Jr. in A Thousand Clowns, winning a Tony award for it. Now 27, she has moved into her stardom in the theater as easily as if her place had been reserved by celestial decree...
...staging a concert reading of Tamburlaine, Seltzer robbed himself of the visual splendor and seemed to sentence his audiences to a few hours of exposure to almost constant shouting. But heavy cutting of Marlowe's lines, some clever technical effects, and a splendid reading by David Stone as Tamburlaine almost make this production first-rate theatre...