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...director must get to know the play thoroughly. He should read it again and again. I personally work more by ear than by eye; I find it best to read a script aloud to friends or family, because it compels me to go slowly. Any one of you could doubtless stump me on a fact about Hamlet in three seconds; but not six of you know the play as well...
Citation: "You wield an angelic pen dipped in impish ink. A serious literary critic, you have delighted your readers and doubtless yourself by revealing the many and curious kinds of astigmatism that have beset generations of critics...
...bestseller, is Moviemaker Zanuck's first lone-wolf production since he left Fox. This turbid plot-boiler clearly rates a special award as the sexiest West Indian travelogue ever made. The mating season is always in full swing on the throbbing Caribbean isle of Santa Marta, which doubtless boasts the highest imaginary birth rate of any 50-mile-long island under the sun. Island employs even the unsubtle cinema device of the screen-bottom exit, pointed up with gasps and romantic rustlings after its clinching couples drop from view...
...itself was doubtless the primary reason that the student of the 50's could not return to raccoon-coated stereotypes. But there are other factors which make the post-war student different--increasing academic pressure caused by rising applications; the difficulty of securing admission to graduate schools; and the competitive bidding carried on by science and industry for top graduates. These are only the more obvious forces which compelled students toward a more serious concern with academic life, although it might be argued that the concern was more pre-professional in nature than academic...
Excesses of spleen and puerility are seldom a playwright's assets. John Osborne, who can rant as forcefully as he rambles pointlessly, would doubtless be a bore as a mellow young man. But if he risks less anger some day, he can probably say more...