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...seen everything twice," he was a sort of U.S. saloonfolk hero to movie fans who once made him one of the ten biggest box-office draws. Born in Tasmania, where his zoologist father, an Australian, was a lecturer at the University of Tasmania, Flynn, blessed with quicksilver wit and a steel physique, was a glass-jawed boxer with a good right, a global Jack-of-all-trades, and a freebooting South Sea sailor before his congenital charm infected Hollywood, where he never learned to act. By his own estimate, he made $7,000,000 in movies ("just for swinging...
Fairly interesting while chronicling its love affair, Chéri afterward does little realistically with fractured lives, little nostalgically with fragrant memories. There is no more wit to its frivolous scenes than depth to its sober ones. The audience can only watch a lost young man and a woman who gets older and older. At whatever age, Kim Stanley proves a gifted actress, but she seems about as Gallic as cornflakes and as demimondaine as Betsy Ross. She is forever fighting a role as well as a script...
...Home Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons. Top Tory thinker and the man who oversaw the party's postwar shift to "the New Conservatism," i.e., free enterprise heavily tempered by welfare statism, "Rab" Butler is distrusted by many fellow Tories for reasons ranging from his barbed wit to his prewar identification with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement. Although he remains the No. 2 man in the party, Butler may well be too old for the job the next time the Tories come to choose a new Prime Minister, and there is considerable question whether Macmillan will give...
...four-week limited engagement of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar had been sold out overnight. Based on the series of "wicked, wicked letters" that George Bernard Shaw exchanged over the years with Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell, the play crackled with the thrust and parry of Shavian wit neatly done in German. But for once G.B.S. himself was being upstaged by an even more powerful drawing card: famed Viennese Actress Elisabeth Bergner, 59, emerging from semiretirement to score the triumph of her career...
...other half of the team, David Brinkley, 39, who has never lost all of his North Carolina drawl or his essentially mischievous disposition, provides the show's seasoning. Viewers have learned to rely on frequent injections of his subtle and astringent wit and to watch for the point of his sharp needle-often delivered with a squirming body English that is as familiar a Brinkley trademark as his lopsided smile. A onetime United Press staffer, he began doing TV newscasts in Washington in 1943, when there were only a few hundred sets in the city ("I had a chance...