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...Fall Down (M-G-M). Berry-berry Willart (Warren Beatty) takes a long, slow pull of bourbon. "Funny things happen t'me alla time," he says reflectively. "Dunno why. Dunno what I'm gonna do next. I just-live fer kicks!" And he lays back his ears and laughs like a jackass that can smell the old pea patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Attack of Berry-berry | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

Actor Beatty is the latest cinemale to step into the late Jimmy Dean's blue jeans, and All Fall Down is largely a description of how Berry-berry Willart gets his kicks. As the film begins. Berry-berry conks a floozy with a spittoon and lands in the frost in Florida. Bailed out by his teen-aged brother (Brandon deWilde), he thumbs a Caribbean cruise with a yachtsy-totsy (Constance Ford). "Don't you have a husband?" he wonders. "Yes," she muses, "but he wouldn't appeal to you." When the cruise is over, Berry-berry moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Attack of Berry-berry | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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