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Jacques Demy was trained as a violinist but now spends his time composing movies as themes-and-variations. The repetition of visual patterns in his brilliant Bay of the Angels struck many viewers as monotonous. Shot in black and white, Bay had a stark, realistic aspect that obscured the director's intentions, leading viewers to anticipate a narrative realism that Demy had little interest in presenting...
...held--the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, all of it. Even disciplined portly General von Choltitz (Gert Forbe) balks at the task. Finally (because he comes to the conclusion that Hitler is mad) he betrays the city to the Allies and it's all over but the shouting. Producer Ray Stark could have made a documentary or he could have made a movie about von Choltitz's moral dilemma (uninteresting though it may be). Instead he has attempted to place every page of the book in Gallic animation--a feat awesome in itself since every page is as boring...
...tough act to follow, but Mimi grinned gratefully: "It's easier to follow a good act than a bad one-it's not like this show was a bomb." Neither was Mimi. Everyone of course would think of Barbra, but after a few performances, Producer Ray Stark thought his new Funny Girl girl so humorous that he offered her and her husband Phil Ford, who now has the role of Eddie Ryan in the play, a $1,000,000 film, stage and TV contract...
...other city, and the unavoidable traffic jams have elicited no examples of Christmas spirit from the participants. But somehow the city keeps her head. She looks with grudging admiration at Prudential Center, like the split level of a nouveau riche nephew, but stays home for the holidays. The stark slab may mean money and progress and all those other nasty things, but the important thing now is the old house, the Christmas wreaths looking dignified on Louisburg Square, the candles at the State House...
Graduate school admissions and fellowship applications reflect similar differences in outlook. That IBM-atmosphere they were rioting about is reflected in the stark simplicity and, perforated, EZ-to-process, pages of Berkeley's form. As for Harvard's GSAS form, its appearance would enthrall any student of the visual arts: at least five different kinds of type reflect the level of significance of various questions. Xeroxed and informally stapled at the corners, Wellesley's graduate fellowship form reflects the combination of casualness and warmth which characterizes afternoon teas at their best...