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Peter Kaplan

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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


Film

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


Film

Robin and Marian. Sappy and great. Robin Hood and Little John come back from the Crusades and try to recapture