Movies

October, 1962

A couple of years ago Irwin Shaw wrote a fake-serious saga called Two Weeks in Another Town, which MGM has now made into a fittingly fake-serious film. It's the talky tale of an ex—movie star carrying a lost-love-and-neurosis load. All loads lead to Rome, and it's there that he gets a comeback chance from a director who's getting his comeback chance. We watch the actor hurdle toward sanity, over the obstacles of an ex-wife, an ex-bim, an ex-homo who is not quite sapiens, and the (almost) ex-dire...