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...East Side hostesses are fighting to get the new playwright at their dinner parties. Suddenly Harvard's master of Beowulf has taken on a whole new dimension, and what with Hollywood pounding on his Athens Street door, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. Will success spoil William Alfred? Will he toss away his fedora, his anecdotes, his Wiglaf...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 7/5/1966 | See Source »

Never meaning to spoil his idyl, François expands it when he meets and swiftly succumbs to a vivacious blonde postal clerk (Marie-France Boyer). The girl becomes his mistress, and he is happier than ever. One day, at yet another family picnic, his wife asks why. François forthrightly explains: "You, me, the kids, we're like an apple orchard inside a fence. Then I see another apple outside-." Though she is not at all sure that she likes those apples, the wife lets François make love to her once more while the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Philandering Tale | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...East Side hostesses are fighting to get the new playwright at their dinner parties. Suddenly Harvard's master of Beowulf has taken on a whole new dimension, and what with Hollywood pounding on his Athens Street door, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. Will success spoil William Alfred. Will he toss away his fedora, his anecdotes, his Wiglaf...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 5/19/1966 | See Source »

...trimmed coat and a concert pianist. Her hair loses its luster, her complexion fades to the color of driftwood, and ultimately she lands in Mexico wearing a filthy flowered wrapper and carousing with Burgess Meredith, a blackmailer. After she shoots him for threatening to reveal her identity and spoil the Governor's bid for the White House, she plays her big courtroom scene, helped along by her son (Keir Dullea), now a clear-eyed young defense attorney. He never really knows the truth but senses, somehow, that his client was once a very snappy number. Contemporary observers attending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Weepy Perennial | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...showing in the South, where it outscored its opponents 40-14, would be enough to spark dreams of invincibility in the heart of a Cub rooter. Rollins, which had been practicing since January and already had 18 games under its belt, scored four runs in the sixth inning to spoil the Crimson's debut, 6-2, on April 5. But in the second seven-inning contest of the day, Harvard exploded with seven runs in the sixth inning for an 3-5 revenge...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Baseball and Lacrosse Teams Swing South and Win | 4/11/1966 | See Source »

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