Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Journal has since presented the tale of Fat Bernie, a 225-pounder who makes $30,000 a year selling bits of gossip to New York entertainment columnists. If Bernie can't find it, he fabricates it. It has run one man's look at the sterility of the Yale graduate school, in which the student "is deprived by his life style of the use of his senses . . . reading mile after mile of the printed line." It has told--in the hour-by-hour style of Jim Bishop's The Day Lincoln Was Shot--the exciting story of Lady Bird Johnson...
...have traveled well to Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scott, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets who hold ceremonies for their "customers" on the beach. The Strong Breed is more of a myth-play, delving into the realm of tribal taboos with the tale of a stranger who becomes a village's sacrificial scapegoat...
MORE THAN A MIRACLE. A flying monk, a gaggle of witches, 3,000 hexed eggs, seven princesses and a dishwashing contest stand between a peasant girl (Sophia Loren) and her prince (Omar Sharif), but only temporarily for this is a fairy tale, and a fanciful delight at that...
SEASHORE STORY by Taro Yashima (Viking; $4.95). An ancient Japanese tale of a fisherman who went away to the bottom of the sea on the back of a turtle and stayed so long that no one remembered him when he returned. Illustrated by the author with beguiling watery pictures...
...Polanski (Knife in the Water) is hopping mad about The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck. Alleging that his U.S. producers cut 19 minutes of footage and otherwise tampered with his handiwork, he sputters: "What I made was a funny, spook fairy tale, and this is a sort of Transylvanian Beverly Hillbillies...