Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began enticing his readers with the latest on what moom pitcher star was seen handholding what sweedee pie at El Morocco. As his following grew, so too did his impudence. Throughout the 1930s, the gang at Lindy's and housewives everywhere sniggered at such items as "Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poet, just bought a new set of store teeth...
...more than $500,000. Trading plugs for the latest dirt, he played the fawning pressagents for all they were worth, banishing the unfavored to his feared "DD [drop dead] list." His underworld contacts occasionally turned up a genuine "skewp." In one instance he announced the slaying of Gangster Vincent ("Mad Dog") Coll six hours before it actually happened. In another, acting as a go-between in the surrender of Murder Inc.'s Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, he picked up the mobster on one street corner and delivered him to J. Edgar Hoover on another...
...still does. Originally released in 1953, it stars Vincent Price in his first horror role. He is in splendidly clammy form as a sculptor of meticulously realistic wax figures who is presumed dead in a fire that destroys his waxworks. He mysteriously reappears, however, to open a hall of waxen horrors that quickly becomes the talk of turn-of-the-century New York City. Meanwhile, corpses start disappearing from the city morgue. A horribly deformed figure in a black cape is stalking the streets, terrorizing the likes of Phyllis Kirk and Carolyn Jones. There are several suspicious deaths...
...Most Unforgettable Psychopath I Ever Met. After that trauma on the staircase, young Jimmy Graham's father Harry (Robert Mitchum) is eventually convicted of his wife's murder and sent to the state pen. Jimmy is dispatched to an orphanage. Fifteen years later, Jimmy (Jan-Michael Vincent) goes looking for his father. He has been paroled, and is now scratching out a living as a mechanic in a small town on the New Jersey shore, sustained by his girl friend (Brenda Vaccaro). Vengeance, not forgiveness, is the reason for the son's pilgrimage...
...actors barely try. Vaccaro is strident, Vincent swishy and Mitchum somnolent as usual. It is often said that Mitchum is a fine actor who has seldom had a role to really challenge him. He has been extraordinary at least twice: as the deranged preacher in Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter and as the inebriated deputy in Howard Hawks' El Dorado. In his multitude of other roles, he has mostly looked sullen and talked tough; one has the sense, watching him, that he thinks acting is a hell of a way for a man to earn...