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Peter Kaplan
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A Canine in a Cummerbund
S OMETIMES THE LITTLE RASCALS would try to put on a show. Spanky would cry, "Let's put on a show!"
The Thirty-Six or Thirty-Seven Greatest Movies of All Time
Elsewhere in this little magazine, a spunky fellow whose company we enjoy and whose opinions we respect goes after Orson
Waving Wheat Still Smells Sweet
T HERE WAS AN ABRUPT TRANSITION in the American musical theater between 1942 and 1943, and the transition was between
Candy is randy but pasta is fasta
W HILE trying to figure out the Hite Report the other day, I ran smack into an old friend of
Sleep-away Paradise
T HE SMART MONEY (whoever that is) would have you buy a piece of Mark O'Donnell instead of, say, Douglas
Lots of singing... Not much dancing
More persistent than Banquo's ghost or a Brittanica salesman, the phenomenon of the Hollywood Ten trial, and the terrible trouble
Back in the Ballpark
H OW LONG HAS it been? In years, moderate; in discomfort, boundless. Other teams can claim longer dry spells, but
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The Great Dictator. Chaplin, it seems, can do nothing inconsequential. Even this, which many people don't find very funny, seems
T.V.
Your Show of Shows. Saturday at 11:30 on Channel 7. If television is a cool medium, it's only since Sid
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Robin and Marian. Sappy and great. Robin Hood and Little John come back from the Crusades and try to recapture
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Touch of Evil is Orson Welles's darkest, most disturbing film. Shot in Venice, California after years of exile from Hollywood
Horizontal Pinstripes
T WO DOTTY OLD women shuffled along, their heads bobbing slightly, their eyes a little glazed. One wore a plain
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Chinatown. They'll make a mint showing this, and they deserve to. What seemed to be another cashing-in on the spate
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The Thin Man. If you haven't, you must. It's as tight as the book and moves with a drive which
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When Franco won the Spanish Civil War in 1939, thousands of left-wing intellectuals and artists fled the country, among them
