What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film) caricature. Bette Davis' make-up could very well have been done by Charles Addams, Joan Crawford's perils make those of Pauline look like good, clean fun and the plot piles one fantastic twist upon another until it all becomes nonsensical." Brendan Gill of "The New Yorker" was somewhat negative as well, calling the film "far from being a Hitchcock—it goes on and on, in a light much dimmer than necessary, and the climax, when it belatedly arrives, is a bungled, languid mingling of pursuers and pursued which put me in mind of 'Last Year at Marienbad.' Still, Bette Davis and Joan
Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? "Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo?" is a short story by Gerald Kersh. It is regarded as a science fiction story, dealing with a tale of a man who has had immortality thrust upon him in a way that does not benefit him at all. It was first published in Kersh's own collection, "The Brighton Monster and Other Stories" (Heinemann, 1953) and later collected in the anthology "One Hundred Years of Science Fiction" (Simon & Schuster, 1968), edited by Damon Knight. In July 1945, at the conclusion of the war in Europe, a war correspondent by