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...second or third reading. The two traits well combined make for what the uninitiated call good writing; they are best combined here in an excerpt from a picaresque novel by Richard Robinson, and in at least two poems, "Epithalamion, 4 A.M." by Stephen Sandy, and "To Speed and Greta" by Richard Sommer...
...full title of Richard Sommer's poem is "To Speed and Greta: A Word About Your Friend, Dead in Ambush; Algeria, November 1, 1957." It is a kind and wise, but realistic "Word." Sommer talks in verse about the memory of a dead friend and troubling inadequacies of memory. The metaphor of "masks" and "manikin" creates a speculative whole that reveals with emotion the sense of emptiness a death creates. One or two lines are too harsh for the general tone of the poem, however...
...recognized his belligerent direction behind Director Rouben Mamoulian's recent spat with Sam Goldwyn. (Even Mamoulian does not seem to mind that the publicity-reaping battle cost him the job of directing Porgy and Bess.) And not long ago, Birdwell sold gullible movie columnists the phony yarn that Greta Garbo had expressed an interest in the movie version of Lolita. Director Stanley Kubrick, who is Birdwell's client, is supposed to have ruled Garbo out of Lolita but offered her the part of Marlon Brando's mother (there is no such part) in Brando...
Behind great smoky glasses and a slim umbrella, Greta Garbo landed at Idlewild, home from a visit to Europe. A reporter asked: "What brings you to New York?" Said Garbo before disappearing: "I live here...
...incident was characteristic. Alec Guinness is a public recluse in the grand theatrical tradition of Maude Adams, Greta Garbo and Paul Muni. And shut up in the passionate reserve is one of the most difficult, complex and enigmatic Englishmen who ever reached for the rouge. "A dark horse," says Sir Laurence Olivier, "a deep one." Director David (Kwai) Lean adds: "Alec is one of the most fantastically knotted-up men I know." And all agree with the actor who called him "the best-kept secret of modern times, a sort of one-man Tibet...