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Adapted from a novel by Britain's Henry Farrell, Baby Jane tells the story of two little monsters and how they grew. The more precocious monster, Baby Jane, is a vaudeville kiddie who at the age of six is almost as famous as Mary Pickford. Spoiled rotten, she treats her parents like dirt and her little sister like a worm. But fame fades and the worm turns. When Jane (Bette) grows up, she becomes a drunk. When sister (Joan) grows up, she becomes a Hollywood star. One night in a fury Joan tries to run Bette down...
Died. Willis Harold O'Brien, 76, longtime moviemaker who ushered in Hollywood's monster era with his trick photography of dinosaurs and other enormous beasts; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. O'Brien's monsters were, of course, tiny movable models photographed a few frames at a time, a technique best remembered in his 1933 classic King Kong, in which a mammoth ape invaded Manhattan, wound up atop the Empire State Building batting away U.S. fighter planes like so many gnats...
...mistress' universal checking account. In less than a minute the order slides down a chute, and the housewife brings home the electronic bacon. Dr. Mauchly, who invented some of the original big computers and has already built one the size of a suitcase, is working on the pocket monster...
...telescopes have grown larger and more powerful, the sun studiers' problems have grown more complex. When the National Science Foundation set out to build the world's largest solar scope six years ago, a massive investigation had to be made merely to find where to place the monster. Astronomers roamed the U.S.; rockets were fired aloft to check on atmospheric conditions; scores of aerial maps were made before the NSF settled on 6,875-ft. Kitt Peak in Arizona. The peak's flat top, high in the clear air, is well above hot desert breezes...
Witchily, Martha flays George. She wanted him to succeed her father; instead, he is the "bog in the history department." Albee recognizes that the shape of a dream marks the personality after the dream's defeat. Martha dreamed of power; defeated, she is loud, coarse, a monster of appetite, mostly promiscuous. George pursued the truth but has disenchantedly come to regard it as a mirage. In his dream's defeat, he is a monster of intelligence, detached, acid, playful as a cobra, alternating easily from the deadly serious to the deadly comic...