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Visually the film is often breathtaking, photographed in color on a vast canvas stretching from New England to Rome and Vienna. Tom Tryon, lithe and beatific as Father Stephen Fermoyle, plays the prospective prince. At first he falters. His sister Mona (Carol Lynley) tells him in the confessional that she has "slept with" a boy (John Saxon) whom she cannot marry because he is a Jew. Fermoyle never gives absolution, for he has long since despaired of converting the boy, who utters wisecracks like: "Hasn't Darwin kind of put the skids to GenesisT...
...please best only those readers who know least about Apollinaire, but who are delighted to dip into a nicely, often spicily, written story about a fin de siècle Villon who smoked opium, palled around with Picasso, Matisse and Braque and (in 1911) got arrested for stealing the Mona Lisa...
...tweed; Helena, impeccably educated from birth by a cultivated clubwoman mother; Polly, whose father has gone "loony" after the crash of '29; Kay, beautiful and serious, most responsive to the conscience of The Group; Priss, hereditary Vassar, destined for social work; Pokey, rich and horsy; Lakey, "the Mona Lisa of the Smoking Room," who has everything. Rich, beautiful and haughty, Lakey has a taste in clothes, people and ideas that is absolute...
...Cocoon. A beam whose upper half had been partially cut away reminded Marisol of the Mona Lisa: as she examined the grain of the cutaway part, she thought she saw the famous smile. She painted in the face, guided by the grain, and added a pair of plaster hands around the middle of the beam. The result looks as if the Mona Lisa were about to emerge from some sort of wooden cocoon...
...know two who preceded him: my husband, Ray Evans (lyric writer), and his collaborator, Jay Livingston (composer), who wrote such un-Indian songs as Mona Lisa, Buttons and Bows, Tammy, and Que Sera Sera. Lined up with their three Oscars are two peace pipes which they smoke after they argue about their pentameters and their pianissimos. They were taken into the Seneca Tribe of New York State about twelve years ago as Chief Words-Come-Easy and Chief Flowing Rhythm...