Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he was young and easy and prince of the apple towns, Dirk Bogarde was Britain's No. 1 box office star. Always being mobbed, he was attended by mounted policemen wher ever he went. His roles ran to parts like the romantic Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities and the young Doctor in the House. But he was really miserable because none of the right people took him seriously. People like Director David Lean would not even consider him for a serious part. "I think Dirk's great," Lean once said, "but I want...
...Saturday afternoon in New York, and the Journal-American's Columnist ("Man About Manhattan") and Theater Critic John McClain had a date with Mrs. Anne Ford, recently divorced from Henry Ford II. They were going to see the movie Tom Jones. And thereby hangs a tale...
...Fantasticks is a light delight, sweet enough for the softest tooth in Cambridge. The musical is generally described as whimsy, but it is more than that: it is willful whimsy, the tale of two young lovers in the silly season of spring, and then in the sober season of cynicism. Both moods are deliciously portrayed by seven actors and one actress in the Adams House Drama Society production of The Fantasticks, which began its two weekend run last night...
...played-out playboy, Ronet is supremely Malleable. He looks like a Gallic Tony Curtis and pours out the heeltap of his charm like stale champagne. Malle himself must be credited with clever cutting and a well-told tale, but unfortunately he too often vaults from fiction to philosophy, and he has no head for heights. No doubt he is right, if tiresomely unoriginal, when he says that in an anxious age big-city dwellers are too often out of touch with each other and with the fundamental realities of their lives. But the spectator's eyes will probably glaze...
This grotesque tale of a happy marriage has the unsettling effect on a reader of a stop-motion film, in which otherwise familiar flowers bud, blossom and decay in a few shallow breaths of a viewer's time...