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...Polaroid camera cradled in his huge hands, Center Walt Dukes of the Detroit Pistons joked his way through a Syracuse, N.Y., locker room one evening last week snapping one distorted picture after another with wildly exaggerated incompetence. His purpose: to relax his teammates on the West squad for the National Basketball Association's annual all-star game. Of all Jokester Dukes's teammates, none had so much cause for tension as the Cincinnati Royals' Oscar ("The Big O") Robertson, the only rookie to crash the starting lineup of either the East or West team. But, as always...
...made his way to Manhattan, and before long fell in with a group of young men who were all destined to become famous: Stuart Davis, Morris Kantor, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh and Walt Kuhn. It was a heady bunch to belong to, but Kuniyoshi's paintings were...
...Mineo, star of Walt Disney's motion picture, Tonka, called Harvard CRIMSON editors "idiots" for naming him the worst actor of 1959. Quoted in Variety, he said, "Saying that Tonka, where I played an Indian boy in love with a horse, was the worst performance of the year shows no signs of constructive criticism and shows a lack of intelligence and is just not nice these people are just not nice." He added that he would never buy a newspaper put out by "these idiots...
...Swiss Family Robinson (Buena Vista), like most of Walt Disney's screen versions of the children's classics (17 to date), is good Disney and bad culture. Ostensibly, the film is based on the world-famed boy's book, published in 1812-13, by Johann Wyss, who was inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to produce his own castaway chronicle and give his principal characters the good old Swiss name of Robinson...
...exception, except for a few of those disconcerting moments when film splices cause things that have been a dusky yellow to become suddenly spotless white. Now and then it is overdone, as in the opening time-sequence shot of a flower blossoming (time sequences were invented by Walt Disnovsky in the early 1900's), but the general effect is moving...