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...radio-TV critics did some outspoken promotion of their own. "Those interim dailies and the broadcasters made Gargantuan efforts to fill the void," wrote the News's Ben Gross, "but both were pale shadows of the real thing." Said the Journal's acerbic Jack O'Brian: "They had it all to themselves . . . and they blew it." To the Telegram's Richard Starnes. all the substitutes were "practically worthless to a hungry...
...Bunnin write the lyrics, and somehow they produced a combination of all the sounds that the best Pudding wenches can roll with a lovely, drawn out salaciousness off the tongue, including some truly catchy ditties--"The Red Star Is Rising," "Logrolling," and "Body by Fisher" especially. The music is Brian Cooke's and Kenneth Stuart's; only occasionally the conventional hammering accompaniment, it certainly got the largest share of talent in the production. Flexible, dramatic, tuneful, the descriptive words steal the actual flavor; anyway, it pulls together a show that would be limp with anything less. A small band plays...
...such a wonderful friendship that it would be a shame to spoil it with marriage," quoth Actress Joan Fontaine, 45, who has lost three former friends that way: Husbands Brian Aherne, William Dozier and Collier Young. Joan pooh-poohed stories that she was about to marry Cartoonist Charles Addams, 51, the Van Gogh of the ghouls. "Marriage is for people who want babies or to live in villages; since we want neither, we're not interested...
...also had a taste for such things, and the Karo-liks and the museum soon formed one of the most remarkable partnerships in the history of art collecting. If the museum would accept them. Karolik said, he would find, buy and donate works of the neglected period. As Critic Brian O'Doherty has noted, "Mr. Karolik must have been the first collector anywhere to offer a museum a collection that didn't exist and who then went...
...crotchety, sulky and pinchpenny plutocrats. But, as someone says, for him selling is "a kind of disembodied activity, like praying," and disembodiment is the felt mood of the evening. Behrman dutifully tries to fire Pengo and Co. with emotions. Pengo rages at his petulant and priggishly high-minded son (Brian Bedford). He feels pity for a twitchily neurotic moneybag (Ruth White), for his loyal secretary (Agnes Moorehead), and for a lonely press-maligned monopolist (Henry Daniell). The wet cardboard will not ignite. Only Charles Boyer, the actor, ignites. He is a fountain of eternal charm, a foxy grandpa of stage...