Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...funeral was because they wanted to be sure he was dead." Thus, the legend goes, did Movie Magnate Sam Goldwyn dispose of his longtime colleague and competitor, Louis B. Mayer. By quoting the remark near the start of his new biography, Hollywood Rajah (Holt; $5.50), New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther makes plain that he feels no kindlier toward the onetime junk dealer who became one of Hollywood's gaudiest tycoons, created stars from Garbo to Rooney, wrote his name on some of the best and worst pictures of his day, and ruled much of the movie business...
...Russian immigrants parlayed ownership of a Haverhill, Mass, nickelodeon into the Hollywood eminence that earned him the highest salary in the U.S. for seven years in a row ($1,139,992 in 1943). What makes the biography unusual is the gossip columnist's relish with which normally dignified Critic Crowther rummages through Mayer's private life...
...Everybody's happy the Times finally made up its mind about a drama critic," wrote the New York Daily News's Broadway columnist, Robert Sylvester. "Now Yogi Berra and Toots Shor can relax...
...months since veteran Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson announced his retirement (TIME, Dec. 28), the question of a successor became one of New York's favorite guessing games-and indeed it did sometimes seem as though Yogi Berra had a chance. But last week the mantle fell on Howard Taubman, 52, a first-rate reporter as well as the Times's music critic for the past five years, who thus takes over the most prestigious aisle job in the press world...
...crowd was patient, and only booed the intruding fireman (who may have remembered that the Modern was almost destroyed by fire a scant two years ago). What the connoisseurs witnessed for their pains was an unbeautiful joke with no punch line. As the New York Times's Critic John Canaday gently put it: "Mr. Tinguely makes fools of machines while the rest of mankind permits machines to make fools of them. Tinguely's machine wasn't quite good enough, as a machine, to make his point...