Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot makes little difference to any Chevalier fan. In caricaturing a spring chicken still trying to scratch in mid-autumn he rises above farce to approach great comedy. His lessons to Jacques in picking up beautiful women are as delightful as they are instructive. And one of the funniest scenes shows Jacques stumbling through an imitation of the master's technique with Madeleine as the target...
Slansky Stays Hanged. Did the new reversal also undo the Kremlin's anti-Zionist campaign? Hard-pressed Israel hoped it did, and expressed its readiness to resume diplomatic relations with Moscow. The Kremlin had broken with Israel as one of the repercussions of the "fiendish" plot that was now proclaimed a phony. (Another alleged plot of the Zionists, the one in Czechoslovakia, could not be undone so easily: Communist Rudolf Slansky and ten of his pals had already been garroted...
Meanwhile, a small pyre must be built for those who had helped prepare the plot against the doctors. They, said Beria's communique, "have already been arrested and brought to criminal responsibility." Besides Ryumin and Ignatiev, there was another victim: Lidiya F. Timashuk, a grandmother and a physician. Lidiya Timashuk was decorated last January with the Order of Lenin,the Soviet Union's top order, "for exposing the doctor assassins." "She fought," said Pravda, "as one fights with enemies of the homeland-a life and death struggle." Last week Dr. Timashuk was stripped of her decoration because...
Kuhl handed Faulkner a page and a half of Lux-inspired suggestions for tidying up the characters and the plot. In four days Faulkner was back with a script. Says Kuhl: "There were some wonderful lines in it, but they would have offended." After two more tries, Faulkner turned m a script that could be certified pure enough for TV. Kuhl is eager to do more Faulkner stories and even hopes the novelist can be tempted to write some originals. How did Faulkner himself like the TV version of The Brooch? Says Kuhl: "I talked to him right after...
...Bandits of Corsica (Global Productions; United Artists) has another go at the creaking old dual-identity plot. This time Richard Greene is cast as 1) a gypsy knife thrower, and 2) a dashing nobleman who espouses (circa 1830) the cause of Corsican freedom against French Tyrant Raymond Burr. It seems that the nobleman and the gypsy are Siamese twins. Though severed by surgery, they are still tied to each other by a strange spiritual bond. Before long, the twins join forces against the tyrant who finds himself seeing double. Additional complications set in when twin No. 1 (the gypsy) develops...