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The good old days got worse. Elly sang in striptease shows, and understudied Barbra Streisand in I Can Get It for You Wholesale. It was like sending a sparrow in for a hawk. Off-Broadway was a better avenue for her talents. In 1961, she found herself in a little...
Pennsylvania heavyweight crew coach Ted Nash, whose obsession in life for the past few years has been to put a permanent end to the Harvard dynasty, stood on the Weld Boathouse dock yesterday with the smile of a man who sees his goal very much within reach.
François Truffaut has often spoken of his affection for rapid and startling changes of mood. Shoot the Piano Player careened crazily from farce to thriller, and interludes of pastoral bliss alternated smoothly with scenes of excruciating emotional warfare in Jules and Jim. In these films, Truffaut mingled the...
Pathology of Obsession. Truffaut dedicates the film to his idol, Jean Renoir, and The Mississippi Mermaid begins with scenes from Renoir's 1938 masterpiece La Marseillaise. There are many more affinities here, though, with the work of another Truffaut deity, Alfred Hitchcock. As Julie, Catherine Deneuve has all the...
Dianetics began losing popularity after the initial excitement caused by the book in 1950. Hubbard shrewdly chose to shift the emphasis from psychomatic healing (more fitting the mood of the 50's) to spiritual elevation, the obsession of a more spaced-out age. So in 1952, he renamed his movement...