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...allowed all-make casts only. A few of the big rotes could have stood better but that is no reason to advocate a style of writing acting; yet Jeannette Hume had a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
...Survival, 1940-1965) were published in London by the Sunday Times, in the U.S. by LIFE, and last week all of Britain was arguing about them. "Sir Winston is having his phagocytes counted, his pneumogastric system checked and the eliminatory functions examined in a public post-mortem," raged Columnist Cassandra in the Daily Mirror. The medical journal Lancet noted icily that "the public's trust in the medical profession derives largely from its conviction that what transpires between patient and doctor will not be bandied about," and the British Medical Association rushed out a warning to all doctors...
Died. Eugene Leonard Burdick, 46, bestselling novelist and University of California political science professor, a former Rhodes scholar who methodically ground out Cassandra-like tales of political science fiction (The Ugly American and its forthcoming sequel, Sarkhan, both written with William J. Lederer; Fail-Safe, written with Harvey Wheeler; and The 480); of a heart attack while playing tennis; in San Diego...
Dame Edith in her last best years struck the attitude of a withered grand Cassandra. Her memoirs involuntarily reveal that in this, as in all her cold, impressive poses, it was seldom a grown woman who spoke. It was more often poor little E, getting even with the world for making her poor little...
...really the Italians' fault. First of all, La Lisi was a cold brunette when she left their shores. And even after 25 European films, she was best known to them as "La Bocca della Veritd" (The Mouth of Truth), not for her Cassandra-like utterances, but for her TV toothpaste commercials. None of this influenced How to Murder's author, George Axelrod, who wanted some Continental dish for the part and took one look at Virna in a "screen test, a bedroom scene with Lemmon, and cancelled any further auditions...