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...Wagged His Tail. Peter Ustinov plays the villain, and a four-footed Italian actor named Caligola plays Peter Ustinov in this comic allegory about a Brooklyn slumlord who is magically changed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 20, 1961 | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

Abruptly, Franco was proved right. Looking about for places to put airbases, the U.S. in 1953 signed a ten-year alliance and aid treaty in Madrid, and Franco passed from international villain to member of the Western community. Ever since, Spain has been improving slowly, erratically, but noticeably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The First 25 | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...Wagged His Tail. Peter Ustinov plays the villain and a four-footed Italian actor named Caligola plays Peter Ustinov in this comic allegory about a Brooklyn slumlord who is magically changed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 13, 1961 | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...million a year), quoted from its written policy: "There will be no material on any of our programs which could in any way further the concept of business as cold, ruthless, and lacking all sentiment or spiritual motivation. If a businessman is cast in the role of a villain, it must be made clear that he is not typical but is as much despised by his fellow businessmen as he is by other members of society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Taste, Sponsorwise | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...corn-pone simpleton (Ruby Dee) who says things like "Indo. I deed." Here is the unlicensed preacher hero, Purlie Victorious Judson (Ossie Davis)-a liar, a braggart, a trickster, and the self-appointed messiah of his race ("Who else is they got?"). And here, too, is the neo-Confederate villain, Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee (Sorrell Booke), a Simon Legree plantation owner equipped (in A.D. 1961) with a bull whip and not-quite-so-unbelievable quips ("You tryin' to get non-violent with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Uncle Tom Exhumed | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

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