Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner reads like an Arthur Goldberg speech, one of his more interminable. It is the ninth and last film to employ the talents of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and for that distinction a picture worth seeing; but on all other counts it stinks. Stanley Kramer has degenerated from one of Hollywood's more interesting bad moviemakers into one of its most maudlin. The crude but somehow compelling live-TV quality of Judgment at Nuremberg and Ship of Fools, painted with crayon and musicalized by DeVol, blessed with Sidney Poitier, reveals Kramer...
...Escrow. Navy Parachute Rigger 3C Stanley K. Kase was honeymooning in Puerto Rico when he was ordered to join his unit at Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station, Brooklyn. Airman 1C William D. Fox of the 445th Military Airlift Wing, Marietta, Ga., was to be married the next day-and got a three-day pass from his commanding officer. Aviation Mechanic Ira Bennett, of the Navy's Squadron VA831 in New York City, also planned to be married this week. "I was in shock when I heard we were called," he said. "I'm just shaking...
...adapter was no less than Truman Capote, and Princess Lee Bouvier Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's sister, was in the title role. NBC, meanwhile, had ponied up an unprecedented $112,500 for TVs first preview of a Broadway-bound drama, William Hanley's Flesh and Blood, starring Kim Stanley, E. G. Marshall and Edmond O'Brien. Yet neither work played up to its billing...
...what of "reading" books? Here it seems that the most depressing of all laws-Gresham's, that bad money drives out the good-applies as mercilessly to good books as it does to funny money. The man who has sold the most novels is Erie Stanley Gardner-159 million copies of 125 titles. At least he is a highly competent mystery craftsman. The author who has sold the most in single-copy titles is the semiliterate fantasist of violence and squalor, Mickey Spillane, who has written seven novels that have never sold less than 4,000,000 copies apiece...
...play, originally scheduled for Broadway last year but bought by NBC for a TV première. It's all about a close-knit contemporary American family whose members discover they don't really know each other. Starring Edmond O'Brien, E. G. Marshall, Kim Stanley and Suzanne Pleshette...