Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tale has announced with "greatest disappointment" that the traditional Harvard-Yale bicycle race will not be held this year. But the Yale Spoke and Wheel Society has assured the many fans of stock bike racing that it will do its utmost to revive its rivalry with the Barhandlers next year...
...father is actually a stepfather (Sergei Bondarchuk), and in the film's first episode he strides into the boy's world like a giant out of a fairy tale. Huge-eyed with fright, the child watches the giant as he splutters prodigiously at the bathroom washbowl. Working up his courage, he inquires in a very small voice: "Are you going to whip me?" The man replies: ''Why should I?" A light wakes in the child's eyes. When his stepfather leaves the bathroom, Seryozha goes shyly to the washbowl, makes a tentative little splutter...
...Hustler. Director Robert Rossen racks up an impressive total score in this tale of a young pool paladin (Paul Newman) who learns that character, meaning Old Champ Gleason, is more important than talent...
...makes one wish Ingmar Bergman would stop playing with his damn symbols for a while and just tell a story. If he had been willing to do so, this film might have been the funniest comedy of the year. As it stands, it is merely a confused tale, that never says enough humorously or seriously to make it worth the bother...
...remarkable is that the myth does work. Largely, Camus has accomplished his end through surrealism and through appeal to a whole secondary set of myths: the archetypal image the audience holds of the rhythmic and sexual Negro. Only in Kio, and only with black stars could this incredible tale become real. But in this strange, lovely land, Orpheus does live again...