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Hayes is large, but no one could truthfully call him imposing, and the movie was made without benefit of craft, care or wit. This does not seem to have bothered Hayes or anyone else. Only the director appears to have sensed the savage stupidity of this material, but his idea of a corrective is to make fun of it. That is a little like making gags at the expense of your own deformity...
...physician and teacher who is now president of Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Thomas is also a gifted writer with wit, imagination and a bold, encouraging vision of both man and nature. His main theme is symbiosis, the intimate association between even the most dissimilar organisms. For example, he points out that bacteria called rhizobia live in the roots of bean plants and enable them to utilize the nitrogen in the soil; without these parasites the plants would die. There are also viruses-small, independent packets of nucleic acids -which Thomas believes may have helped man evolve...
...word of disfavor. Because it has only been a year since he was plucked from Los Angeles' KNBC to compete with CBS's Dan Rather, Brokaw's success surprised network executives. "Many of us did not realize that he had such poise, wit and delightful humor," burbles Schulberg. Among those who matter-NBC Board Chairman Julian Goodman, President Herbert Schlosser, News President Richard Wald-Brokaw is also thought to have "more magnetism and impact" (read sex appeal). That could be a formidable edge...
Arnott, in order to squeeze the maximum wit out of Coward's insipid manuscript, has worked out what appears to be a second-by-second computer program for verbal inflections, facial contortions, physical maneuvers, and furniture kicking. During the extensive arguments and love bouts of Elyot and Amanda, the play's spirited and engaging cynics, the precise sense of timing turns insults, cigarette lighting, and record smashing into high comic art. At times, Arnott's exhaustive direction and his actors' slavish execution reaches self-parody: it is worthwhile, during the course of the play, to study carefully the director...
...Bergman's first English-language film and his worst movie. Another great double feetch at the Brattle: A lovely movie version of Lawrence's Women in Love coupled with tte chilling Sunday, Bloody Sunday. The Welles is dragging back The Godfather, for those of you that missed it. Offa wit you head, horsey...