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...single dispirited curl, is a junior-grade Walter Mitty, whose highflying dreams of popularity crash in endless ignominies. Charlie's characteristic lament: "Good grief!" The chief scorpion in his child's garden of reverses is a promising young termagant named Lucy, who, with apprentice-shrews Violet and Patty, sharpens her talons on Charlie's ego. "Good Ol' Charlie Brown," purrs Violet as Charlie passes. "Nobody hates him, everybody likes him . . . What a wishy-washy character...
...dotes only on Beethoven and practices interminably on a toy piano. Sighs she: "I'll probably never get married." Other Peanuts regulars: thumb-sucking Linus, who battles grimly for the security of a tattered blanket; a mud-caked urchin called Pig-Pen ("A human soil bank," sniffs Violet); and Snoopy, a pooch of many talents, few of which are appreciated by his peers...
...boxes of paint tubes, a big sake bottle filled with tur pentine, bundles of brushes, and a dozen brass mixing bowls. Of a sudden, in a burst of movement, Mathieu was at work. Tearing paper cartons with his teeth to gain time, he began squeezing blobs and curlicues of violet paint straight from the tubes, and then squirted whole tubes of black pigment...
...supporting cast includes a number of actors who deserve commendation, notably Michael Lewis as the irascible Roebuck Ramsden and Sorrell Booke as the arch-brigand Mendoza (also the Devil in the Don Juan scene). Cavada Humphrey turned in an adequate performance as the misunderstood Violet Robinson, as did Robert Brustein and Thomas Hill as her husband and father-in-law respectively. I particularly enjoyed John Wynne-Evans as Straker, Tanner's Cockney chauffeur...
Proclaiming that U.S. males should stop "staring at women's bodies and start looking at their faces again," the Caricaturists Society of America announced the results of a poll of its own members to determine "the perfect female face." Resulting composite: the "violet, limpid" eyes of Elizabeth Taylor; the forehead, "white, smooth and pure," of Kim Novak; the "cute, slightly turned-up" nose of Songstress Teresa Brewer; the "ripe, sultry and suggestive" mouth of Anita Ekberg; the "silky and soft" hair of Sophia Loren; the "firm, yet round and petite" chin of Natalie Wood; the "slender, yet strong" neck...