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...Andre Cayatte (Tomorrow Is My Turn) has derived a lumpish film from it. Love Story would appear to be another inspiration. The lovers in To Die of Love smooch, swoon and suffer with a fervor that would bring a blush of recognition to Jenny Cavilleri's wan cheek...
...Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange arrives on the scene, and the whole sticky business increases fourfold. Angry viewers write angry letters to bemused editors. Critics swoon in admiration or bellow in rage. Admittedly, A Clockwork Orange is at times a black and raw film; it has pushed violence about as far as is imaginable. But this still can't explain the sheer depth of resentment it has provoked...
Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice, who, at 87, will be a Nixon guest on Saturday, discovered as much in 1906 when she packed in 680 for her marriage to Congressman Nicholas Longworth; some of the ladies began to swoon in the crush...
...will ever forget the February of her years, when an undernourished kid with a big bow tie and an Adam's apple was the idol of all the bobby-socked, sad-dle-shoed groupies. Of course, they weren't called groupies then, and all they did was swoon. In the years since the 1940s, the kid put on weight-and threw it around like no other performer before or since. He was the Chairman of the Board of all show business. But last week Frank Sinatra, at 55, announced "effective immediately, my retirement from the entertainment world...
...conception of the thirties. The ingenue is not just "lovely, fresh, and young," as Messrs. K. and H. described her: Kent Wilson's Alice is a veritable Breck poster girl, a walking Palmolive ad, a cutie who lifts her calf when kissed and who drops into a Pola Negri swoon when embraced. Colin Cabot's Tony, the boss' son, isn't just a thirties romantic; he crackles around the stage like a Keezer's clothes dummy...