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From the first days of the talking movie, the cry of Hollywood celebrities in distress has been: "Get me Giesler." For whether the charge was rape or murder or merely mental cruelty in a divorce case, Jerry Giesler was the best defense attorney in town. Last week the irreplaceable Giesler died, at 77, leaving behind him a saddened and nervous Hollywood...
...tactic in rape cases was to make the victims seem even more rapacious than the accused. When Alexander Pantages was prosecuted for violating a 17-year-old girl, Giesler first established that the girl was strong and athletic and could probably have pinned the scrawny old theater owner to the floor if she had wished to. She had arrived in court in pigtails and a little girl's dress, so Giesler asked the judge to make her wear the clothes she had worn the day of the "rape." After she showed up in a low-cut crimson gown, Pantages...
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS. The third important film produced by the Italian rinascinemento (cinema renaissance) of 1960-61. Director Luchino Visconti's monumental (2 hr. 29 min.) investigation of what happens (rape, murder, homosexuality) to a poor family when it moves from a village to Milan...
...Brussels bank. Their reasons for joining Tshombe's forces varied. "I was somebody; all those people looked up to me." said one status-conscious hireling. "Even a Katangese major always tried to salute me." Added a middle-aged former mercenary: "The Katangese didn't try to rape our wives." Some are more pro-Katanga than Tshombe himself: "The rest of the Congo can go to hell. We lived like brothers with our Katangese friends...
...like an arrested adolescent who disarmingly imagines that he will attain stature if (as short boys are advised in Dixie) he loads enough manure in his shoes. In his most famous plays he has hallucinated a vast but specious pageant of depravity in which fantasies of incest, cannibalism, murder, rape, sodomy and drug addiction constitute the canon of reality. Yet Broadway's bad boy has his sweet-mouthed moments, and Summer and Smoke (1948) is one of them: one of the few plays Williams obviously wrote primarily to please himself, one of the few in which artistic conscience...