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...Atlanta Steel Band, made up of a dozen Negro and white teenagers, pounds its converted oil drums in racially troubled neighborhoods. Formed two months ago by a suburban white businessman and trained by a steel-band leader from the Virgin Islands, the group is one of the most successful enterprises of Atlanta's Youth Opportunity Program, which is supported by city, federal and private money...
...promise and beginning of a vapid farce of mistaken-identity crises. Morse's co-star is Doris Day, playing a pulpy, gulpy Broadway actress named Margaret Garrison, whose bed he blunders into by mistake. To disarm audiences-and possibly critics-she sometimes refers to herself as the Constant Virgin, a sobriquet Doris has actually earned in half a dozen previous films, pursued by the likes of Gary Grant and Rock Hudson but remaining a freckle-faced iron maiden to the fadeout. In this picture, she is equipped with a husband (Patrick O'Neal), but by pouting continually...
...specifics: Troilus and Cressida are not, as this production would them, interchangeable with Romeo and Juliet. Although Troilus' first scenes are thoughtfully conceived and work fine with Troilus mooning-about indulging in the awkward speculation of a seventeen-year-old virgin, a later device of having the lovers visibly improvising the romantic metaphors they lovingly hurl at one another is gratuitous. First, it's a stock actor's trick (whenever you have a self-conscious speech to say, you make it quite clear that you're writing it on the spot) and all those pauses, well...
...hunt for Big Daddy is the price on his head. Miami's Tycoon/Fin-Nor Corp. will pay $5,000 to the first angler who lands a 1,000-lb. blue marlin on its fishing tackle; there is another $1-per-lb. reward if the fish is caught off the Virgin Islands, and $10,000 if it is boated off Puerto Rico...
...Daddy is still out there waiting. Only a day after Fishman broke the record, David Massey, another Virgin Islander, was fighting a 700-lb. blue marlin when he looked over his shoulder and saw "ten or twelve others circling the boat, including one that had to be 20 ft. long." The guesses on the weight of that fish range...