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...worst in Southern California's history -had sent up in Argenta-mink smoke 447 homes (bottom price: $50,000), left behind more than $24 million in insurance claims, and the flossiest refugees since the Russian Revolution. Among the homeless were Actor Cliff Robertson, Joan Fontaine, Comedian Arnold Stang, Bandleader Orrin Tucker. All that was left of Burt Lancaster's $500,000 estate was a mailbox, an exercise bicycle and a smoldering set of barbells. Poking through his own $100,000 ruins, Joe E. Brown uncovered only some oddments and the dress sword of his son-an Army...
...little monkey (U.S. adapters thoughtfully assigned Crooner Frankie Avalon to provide his voice) who sets "out to conquer the world. Along the way he collects some traveling companions, including a prince, an excellent pig (voice drolly done by Comic Jonathan Winters) and a truly estimable cannibal (voice by Arnold Stang). They meet a succession of blackhearted monsters, all agents of wicked King Gruesome. Naturally, goodness prevails, with satisfactory violence. Parents will cheer wistfully for old Gruesome, but that is because they are wicked...
Washington Square (14 alternate Sundays, 4 p.m., E.S.T., NBC) casts Bolger as friend or nursemaid to such village regulars as Comedienne Elaine Stritch, Singer Kay Armen, Comic Arnold Stang, and such one-shot shimmers from uptown as Martha Raye, Abbott & Costello. The première was overplotted and a little cluttered ("It was all we could do to find who belonged in the Square and who didn't," Bolger confessed). But with less emphasis on a running story-which tripped Bolger in his filmed TV efforts-and more on the infectious didos of its star, the show...
...still retained in a few recent comedy roles. He plays the man with the golden arm with a new and almost cat-like power and precision. Sinatra's virtuosity also seems to have inspired the other members of the cast, for most of them give unusually fine performances. Arnold Stang, as a musy little thief, somehow manages to appear both corrupt and appealing, while Kim Novak, as a girl who loves Frankie, gives the rather routine character of "the other woman" considerable stature through an astute bit of underacting...
...sociological backdrop that Author Algren daubed so brilliantly, has edged his major characters more starkly against the mass. As a result, the picture is no intellectual slumming party but a hard-eyed study of human character, and the actors serve this end with a well-directed will. Arnold Stang, as Sparrow the dog stealer, looks as woebegone and unhealthy as a tenement torn just starting his ninth life on the garbage-can circuit, but he seldom hides the human quality of his part behind his television false face. Kim Novak is the type of the neighborhood frill, and she gives...