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...Regency. To watch Williams posing in gold lame, rising from red smoke and diving into a cerulean swimming pool is to understand the blessedness of color blindness. For saccharinity like mother used to make, the film offers a series of backyard musicals in all two dimensions- always featuring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, always culminating in variants of the lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: That Was Entertainment | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...Choosing Mia Farrow to play Daisy Buchanan is like casting Mickey Rooney as Albert Einstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1974 | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

PULP. Michael Caine and-yes -Mickey Rooney are superb in Mike Hodges' high-spirited thriller, which spoofs the mystery genre as Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye was supposed to but didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Year's Best | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

Imagine indeed. As sex symbols go, Riggs is almost too outrageous even for these confused times. To be kind, if a movie is made of the life of Bobby Riggs, the part will probably not go to Warren Beatty. In fact, it should likely fall to Mickey Rooney-who has already offered his services. Riggs stands 5 ft. 7½ in., and, with that peculiar waddle and a well-tinted Cesare Borgia haircut that verges on the grotesque, he seems unsuited for the role of either athlete or bon vivante. But the girls are around, and, since he travels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bobby Runs and Talks, Talks, Talks | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

Holden came to the U.S. after 30 years on the British stage and played with such leading men as Clark Gable, Alan Ladd and Walter Pidgeon. But it was not until she fretted over Mickey Rooney in the Andy Hardy series that she acquired mythic-mother status. She played the role in 15 Hardy pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 9, 1973 | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

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