![]() ![]() Thingamabob, the child star who went on to make up selves and roles for the Peter Pan who ""crept"" inside him. And poor ""Bobbitt"" once known as Robin Ransome and now thinking of himself as Mr. Then there's the lesser ""Lorna,"" Lorna Doone, the ""all American Cookie"" who just went on crumbling through the years, looking for one man after another behind sunglasses, finally succumbing to a ""passionate engagement"" with a real snake-unlike those who had been coiled in her subconscious. ![]() Well, first there's ""Fedora,"" Fedora who lasted from the silents through decades of talkies, her whole life a mask as unlined as her incomparable face, surviving intact the years of cloned legends. ![]() There's a gratifying intimacy with great names dropped with such ease, and there's sure to be less gratifying speculation as to whether any of the four characters here are vaguely related to anybody that was somebody when. ![]() It has none of the hokum landscaped decor of Harvest Home and Lady except that which Hollywood naturally attracts. Crowned Heads consists of four novellas connected only by intermittent referrals (and are they ever heading home-Universal is said to have paid $550,000 for the first of the best two). Of course this is very different from his successes (The Other and those lesser others). all about the distinctive anthropology of Hollywood-the Hollywood which actor Tryon knew as well as anybody before it became extinct. This, from wherever you sit, seems to be the Late Late Late Show everyone will be reading this summer. ![]()
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