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...PRODUCING TEARS AT WILL. My God, I can't. Some of my friends can. Michael Redgrave can. John Gielgud can. John is a dear man but he is a born weeper. When we were all young and attended the theater, we would say, "Don't sit behind John." If the play was at all moving, he would begin to weep. And his tears had a funny habit of squirting off to the rear, so that if you were behind him you would...
MAURIE is an unprecedented film -the first full-scale weeper for men. It is the slightly fictionalized history of the relationship between Maurice Stokes, a black basketball player who was named rookie of the year after his first season with the Cincinnati Royals, then was mysteriously paralyzed, and Jack Twyman, a white man and one of the team's stars, who oversaw and financed a ten-year attempt to rehabilitate Stokes. In the end Stokes died, but not before recovering his ability to speak and to work, albeit painfully, with his hands...
...Then, ten minutes later, comes the second wave, the other 95% of the audience. This is more like it. Wet-eyed men looking neither right nor left. Girls carrying men's handkerchiefs, eye makeup gone, gazing at sidewalks. All victims of Erich Segal's Love Story, the five-Kleenex weeper, the marzipan heartbreaker. It has actually taken them ten minutes just to compose themselves enough to face the real world again...
DECEMBER'S CHILDREN (London), which includes the hit single Get Off of My Cloud, is another Rolling Stones foray into rhythm and blues. There are signs no bigger than an LP's band that the Stones are softening. As Tears Go By is a weeper that Bobby Vinton might sing, though not so well as Mick Jagger, who is actually accompanied by violins...
...word, Gigot is a weeper. If Comedian Gleason has his way-and he apparently had his way with John Patrick's script and Gene Kelly's direction-movie houses will have to supply their ushers with rowboats. Fortunately, though, the sniffles are frequently punctuated with snickers, and now and then with a button-popping belly laugh. Gleason has a gift of mimicry that verges on genius, and there are moments in this movie when the thin man struggling to get out of the fat man seems to be Charlie Chaplin...