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...LITTLE SAINT, by Georges Simenon. In his 500th novel, give or take a dozen or two, the great French whodunist has made a serious and nonviolent attempt to describe the life of an artist, "a perfectly serene character, in immediate contact with nature and life." The extraordinary thing about the book is that it succeeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 24, 1965 | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...LITTLE SAINT, by Georges Simenon. In his 500th novel, give or take a dozen or two, the great French whodunist has made a serious and nonviolent attempt to describe the life of an artist, "a perfectly serene character, in immediate contact with nature and life." The extraordinary thing about the book is that it succeeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 17, 1965 | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...reconstruction of the Broadway comedy hit, is a fairly successful piece of graveyard humor. The corpse is provided by a wildly improbable murderer (Glenn Ford), a young Milquetoast who writes and directs TV whodunits, and who takes a potshot one night at a particularly unpleasant blackmailer. When the whodunist sees his first real-life cadaver, he almost faints. When he wraps the body in a plastic tarpaulin, the plastic tears. When he wraps it in a shower curtain and goes to bury it in the fresh foundation of a new gazebo (summerhouse), he discovers that the hole has been filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 1, 1960 | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

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