Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does omit one American target, however. At one point, Karina sets the theme of the movie by telling the tale of the man who had a brush with death and fled, only to meet it in his flight. Throughout the film, Godard leaves a trail of authors' names: Robert Louis Stevenson, William Faulkner, Jack London, Raymond Chandler. One name he fails to drop is that of the man who made the legend famous by basing a whole novel on it. He is John O'Hara, and his book was Appointment in Samarra...
...else by Mario Bava, Italy's greatest hack (Black Friday, Planet of the Vampires, Kill Baby Kill). In the tradition of Edgar G. Ulmer and the more outlandishly-scripted Charbol melodramas, Bava films wretched nonsense with great style, color, and originality. Don't attempt to inject meaning into this tale of a Super-thief and his sexy girlfriend who inhabit a sumptuous underwater playground which makes Dr. No's look like Rindge Tech. It doesn't matter: film-making as slick and out-landish as Bava's is quite infectious, and Danger: Diabolik proved one of the few pure pleasures...
...BEASTLY BEATITUDES OF BALTHAZAR B, by J. P. Donleavy. Fumbling seductions and moneyed monkeyshines fill Donleavy's tall tale of a rich and dreamy young man in Paris, Dublin and London...
...Bunny Tale. In the early '60s, some unsigned articles for Esquire and a job with Huntington Hartford's Show magazine launched her freelance career. A Show assignment to use a false name and get herself hired as a Playboy bunny really started her as journalist-celebrity. After a month as a bunny, she wrote an engaging and unflattering journal of the furry-tailed life. "For two years after it, all the jobs I was offered were the same kind of thing," she now complains. "Everybody at a party would say, 'This is Gloria Steinem. She used...
...dropped out of sight years ago, when it operated in real estate under the name of J. M. Tenney Corp. After the firm reappeared in 1967 with its new name, stories about Omega as an "entertainment-field" conglomerate began turning up in the financial pages. According to one tale, it was about to take over 20th Century-Fox. Word of the SEC's investigation of Omega got out to a few well-informed investors, who quickly turned in their Mates Fund shares. Strapped for cash, Mates was forced to endure the fund manager's ultimate humiliation...