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Died. Susan Hayward, 55, Oscar-winning cinema actress; of a brain tumor; in Beverly Hills. Born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, the red-haired model was fresh out of high school when she was plucked from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post by David Selznick for a screen test. Hayward scored her first break opposite Gary Cooper in Beau Geste (1939). Mistress of a sultry, come-hither look, she reached her zenith in the 1950s as one of Hollywood's most popular stars, once ecstatically declaring: "I never dreamed this could happen to a girl from Brooklyn." Her most...
...this movie's debut, condolences again to the great Anne Bancroft. There has been, recently, a spate of movies about women -Alice Doesn 't Live Here Anymore, The Stepford Wives, A Woman Under the Influence-which has led to the suggestion that at last the American cinema is losing its masculine bias, that now there are lots of good roles for women and lots of good actresses to play them. Well, the actresses may be there, but the parts are not. Why would Anne Bancroft be in this movie otherwise...
Terrorist Graffiti. The Palestinians' first targets were some moviegoers emerging from a late-night screening of A Streetcar Named Desire at Tel Aviv's Cinema One theater. Next the fedayeen pitched grenades in the direction of a nearby hall where a wedding reception was in progress. Caught in the attack were the terrified bride and groom, who ran for their lives. As Israeli police returned the fire, the fedayeen ducked into the 28-room Savoy Hotel on Ge'ula Street, where they took hostage a dozen surprised guests. By the tune Israeli paratroopers liberated the four-story...
...Sugariand Express. This didn't last very long in Boston, at the inauspicious Pans Cinema (from lisa to Disney last month), but last year it was touted along with Terry Malick's Badlands as an exciting new seventies road picture by a fresh young director. A good movie to be showing at Harvard Directed by Steven Spielberg, with Goldie Hawn. Ben Johnson, and Michael Sacks '70 of Leverett House and Albany...
...admit that I consciously used some of Parllne Kael's descriptions of particular memonts in the movie. I read her piece about a week before beginning my own, and hold in mind the expression "handsome, grainy-cinema-verite" and the characterization of Mabel as a "chastened, hurt-animal" penitent and "anxious speed freak." By any ethical standards I should have given credit to the New Yorker review...