Word: vamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This goes on for seven minutes and eleven seconds, making it the longest single the Beatles have ever recorded. At the end, a swatch of melody is repeated by an orchestra and chorus for nearly four minutes while the Beatles vamp and shout over it. It is a fadeout that engagingly spoofs the fadeout as a gimmick for ending pop records...
...title role, Hoffman is an original, likable actor whose bag of monumeital insecurities marks the truly assured comedian. As the vamp, Anne Bancroft is appropriately sly and predatory, and Katharine Ross, as her daughter, possesses one of the freshest new faces in Hollywood. But the screenplay, which begins as genuine comedy, soon degenerates into spurious melodrama. Moreover, Director Nichols, perhaps affected by his stage experience, has given much of the film the closed-in air of a studio set. Like Nichols himself, The Graduate appears to be a victim of the sophomore jinx...
...believe that she is 47 and a grandmother. So she tones her act down to a quieter hush, focuses her emotions in an even narrower hypnotic beam, and makes the lifting of an eyebrow do what other singers strike poses to accomplish. "If I tried to be a vamp and manufacture sexiness, I'd really be funny," she says. "Anything that's forced comes over fake...
...shows some photographs of a young man to her friend Genevieve. His first name, she says, is Bernard; his last name is "hands off." But Genevieve can't keep her hands to herself, and eventually she loses a girl friend by stealing a boy friend. As the junior vamp, Canada's Genevieve Bujold also walks off with the show. Featured in Alain Resnais' La Guerre Est Finie (TIME, Feb. 3), Bujold at 24 displays a confident talent and a pert, dark beauty that suggests the imminent emergence of a star...
High-stepping Joel Grey led a line of go-go garter girls in a production number from Cabaret which, by TV standards, deserved the top Nielsen rating for naughtiness. Barbara Harris, star of The Apple Tree, sparkled as the scullery maid-turned-balloon-breasted vamp. Co-Hosts Mary Martin and Robert Preston harmonized about marital disharmony in a scene from I Do! I Do!; pint-sized Norman Wisdom sang the razzmatazz title song from Walking Happy. It was Broadway at its belt-'em-out best, a show with pace, style, wit, suspense, and the kind of well-practiced polish...