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...Mineo, star of Walt Disney's motion picture, Tonka, called Harvard CRIMSON editors "idiots" for naming him the worst actor of 1959. Quoted in Variety, he said, "Saying that Tonka, where I played an Indian boy in love with a horse, was the worst performance of the year shows no signs of constructive criticism and shows a lack of intelligence and is just not nice these people are just not nice." He added that he would never buy a newspaper put out by "these idiots...
After a hastily called conference of Lampoon editors, they released the following official statement: "It has always been our purpose to laugh with people--not at them. Had we realised that we were inadvertently slurring the name of a hard-working, child-and-horse-loving actor of Mr. Mineo's caliber, it would have been completely beyond the range of possibility for us to have given him this award. As for the confusion between the Lampoon and the CRIMSON, it is quite understandable since the two words sound identical when repeated quickly...
...novel-it lasted 80 weeks on the bestseller lists and moved almost 4,000,000 copies-has all the production values expected in an epic: full color, wide screen, 45,000 extras, ten name players (Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sir Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Felix Aylmer). What's more, it got these advantages at a spectacularly reduced rate. Shot on the cheap in Israel and Cyprus, Exodus cost less than $4,000,000 to put in the can and has already racked up, at reserved-seat prices...
...civil war, refuse to excuse either side, the film unequivocally blames the Arabs, absolutely absolves the Jews. Then, in chauvinistic frenzy, the picture goes on to sanctify the Jewish terror. Among the principal heroes: a saintly old assassin (David Opatoshu) attached somehow to a Coptic synagogue, a psychotic youth (Mineo) apparently restored to sanity by a regimen of mass murder. The kind of blind hatred that excuses the Jewish terror was also used to excuse the Nazi extermination camps...
...Sept. 25 An Evening with Jimmy Durante (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Even though he is saddled with such guest stars as Lawrence Welk, Sal Mineo and Bobby Darin, the Old Schnozzola ought to be able to snort up enough enthusiasm to make this rare TV appearance worth the trouble of tuning in. Color...