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SAMMY DAVIS JR. SINGS MEL TORME'S CALIFORNIA SUITE (Reprise). As a singer, Mel Torme is known as "the velvet fog"; as a composer he is known scarcely at all. Yet Torme is responsible for at least four songs that have become standards in the repertory. Sammy Davis Jr...
Always the camera trains upon her transcendental face, eyes widened by arrested tears, tentative, reaching, wistful in her offerings of tender inadequacy. Here in her eyes, green eyes, the film unfolds. As she steals into his bedroom, only to resist him. As a pinch-lipped minister exhorts her for her...
Rococo was a royal style, yet one born of relief at the passing away of the splendor and pomp of Versailles and Louis XIV. Aristocrats yearned to lay aside their powdered wigs and play peasant. Marie-Antoinette's fake hamlet in the Trianon park was a doll's...
Mail Order Bride. This wistful little romantic comedy looks as though it would like to grow up and become a western. It has gunfights, cattle rustlers, painted women and a smoke-filled gambling hall, but all the roaring wickedness is dedicated wholeheartedly to the proposition that a feller (Keir Dullea...
Style in Curtis is closer to old-fashioned capriccios than to surrealism. He puts familiar objects in unfamiliar settings with cavalier abandon. Almost every dreamlike painting is set on an undifferentiated desert stage. Bearded sages tote trays of naked dolls on their heads as if bearing man's fate...