Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Easy Life. For the past year Ace, who looks and talks a good bit like Jack Benny, has been CBS's No. 1 doctor for sick comedy and variety programs ("I wanted the office space"). When a sponsor doesn't like a CBS show, Troubleshooter Ace is called in to patch it up. When CBS wants something new, Ace and a staff of four writers go to work. He is pretty discouraged at the moment over his efforts of the past few months. The Ace-originated CBS Was There (TIME, Aug. 4) was abandoned after seven weeks...
...little concrete result. For more than 21 years he has belched and wrangled and improvised and compromised and given his subscribers a magazine every seven days. He still works hard; except for a few sports columns and foreign newsletters which come in over the weekend, he works on every bit of copy that goes into the magazine...
...Jordan (1941), a suave master of celestial ceremonies helped the soul of a dead prize fighter to inhabit the body of a surviving one, with happy results in the ring and at the movie box office. This time Mr. Jordan reaches higher for heavenly intervention, and escorts it a bit lower. The rosy shade of Terpsichore (Rita Hay-worth), outraged by a Broadway work-in-progress called Swinging the Muses, comes down to earth and gets into the act. She immediately dances herself into the lead of the show, and into a fine kettle of fish...
These intricate difficulties are presented in a leathery, smart-cracking kind of dialogue that sounds like an illegitimate great-grandchild of Ernest Hemingway's prose. A remarkable amount of footage is devoted to the way Miss Scott walks, chews over a line like a bit of Sen-Sen before getting it out, and tools a high-powered convertible around a curve. This is, in fact, one of the most auto-maniacal movies since James Cagney's racing classic, The Crowd Roars...
...Nice pig,' said Moses Fable, who usually paid no attention to bit players and extras." The pig, Dirty Eddie, black, underprivileged, but unmistakably talented, is the hero of Ludwig Bemelmans' third whimsical novel. Moses Fable was the fleshy, flashy chief of Hollywood's Olympia Studios. Bemelmans (Hotel Splendide, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You) gets more out of a pig than Swift and Armour (they miss the whimsy as well as the squeal). Dirty Eddie becomes a $5,000-a-week movie star who earns himself swill-pails of fan mail...