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...freshness in precisely 18 minutes. Never overemphasizing, music combines with the insistent scrape of skate wheels in a cheery valedictory to the beardless lads (all played by nonprofessionals), presumably headed for new spills and thrills on the freeways of biological maturity. Producer Marshal Backlar, 30, and Writer-Director Noel Black, 28, thus establish themselves as novice moviemakers who seem happily unafraid of going their own way. They resolutely tackle a minor theme and polish it to professional perfection-a swift, sensitive and funny celebration of a small universal truth. Succinct as poetry, Skaterdater simply happens like a green spring morning...
...Monkey, which consists of keeping both feet still and shaking the hips and hands. But the kids got bored and started moving, so right now in Manhattan nightspots it's the Boogaloo, in which you swivel from side to side, shuffling feet, rotating shoulders and pelvis. Says Terry Noel, discaire (record selector) at the popular Arthur: 'The Boogaloo is a casual motion, a pose. It's aloof. It says, 'Don't bother...
...however inadequate Goldman's play be, Director Noel Willman has somehow contrived to make is worse. Olde English folk songs ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" etc.) are piped over the loudspeaker after every blackout, and stage movement is held to a static minimum. Unfortunately, radiant Rosemary Harris as the dowdy, embittered Queen looks even better than she did as Ophelia two year ago; while cherubic and smooth-skinned Bruce Scott, late of the Merv Griffin Show, fails to convince anybody that he's Prince John, who, as the text repeatedly states, is the victim of massive acne...
...outsmarted Fanny Brice's long list of courtiers by offering her something no millionaire could produce: a vaudeville act. She liked the material, and she liked Billy enough to marry him two years later; she called him a "Jewish Noel Coward." Suddenly Rose found himself at the starting line again. To Fanny's friends, she was America's top comedienne, but Billy was just Mr. Brice. Again Rose jumped, this time toward Broadway. In 1930 he produced Corned Beef and Roses. It was a loser from overture to finale. He rewrote it, renamed it Sweet...
...have had a ball. He could also have had a fit trying to make up his mind. Should he see Shaw? There would be four revivals in London in the course of the year, one of them with Sir Ralph Richardson. Coward? Four of his plays would run, with Noel in two of them. Arthur Miller? Sir Alec Guinness just opened in Incident at Vichy. Musicals? Hello, Dolly! has Mary Martin, no less. Chekhov? Sir John Gielgud and Claire Bloom were great in Ivanov. There was also a new Hamlet, starring a 24-year-old flash named David Warner. Also...