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...crusading country editor and partisan of 1924 Progressive Party Presidential Candidate Robert La Follette, Nye was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into World War II, he popularized the phrase "merchants of death" to describe munitions makers, later was one of the drafters of the 1936 Neutrality Act barring...
...film version's Ivan, played with austere dignity by Tom Courtenay, can scarcely remember his wife, let alone the life from which he has been severed for ten years. His sole ambition is that classic one of all prisoners: to get through the day. A half-bumpkin who believes that stars are pieces of the moon, he survives on an untutored existential faith. What animates him is what moved Camus' Sisyphus: the prisoner fails because failure is immanent in man; he endures because he must. Courtenay's fellow prisoners are for the most part a collection...
...cynical lip-smacking of one doing an expose nor the pretensions of a psychoanalyst. He shows no moral distaste for his subject. Thompson (with the equivalent of a straight face) describes events which reveal Frost to be not Santa Claus, not Albert Schweitzer, not America's favorite nostalgia-evoking bumpkin, but a modern man with popular modern dilemmas such as neurosis, guilt and ambition. We see him terrified of ruin and failure, compensating for his fear with self-aggrandizement, exploitation of friends, and uncompromising demands on his family. Frankly, I'm almost relieved. Somehow I can take Frost more seriously...
...plays a widowed history professor from Iowa who relocates with his three daughters in sunny, funny Italy. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (ABC) exploits both the classic 1936 film comedy of the same name and the stupefying breakthrough in transcultural humor of The Beverly Hillbillies. Deeds is a bumpkin newspaper editor who unexpectedly inherits the financial empire of a robber-baron uncle and moves to Manhattan to redress family wrongs. In the first episode, TV Actor Monte Markham (The Second Hundred Years) wrestled with the Gary Cooper part and an intractable script...
Rivals in Pleasure. That Gilles should remind Chastel of Bottom is no surprise, for both play essentially the same comic role. In the commedia dell' arte farces so popular in Watteau's day, Gilles, or Pierrot, was the simple-wilted country bumpkin, often a servant who pointed out the follies of his master and for his audacity got his ears boxed. But Watteau's dignified, wistful figure is aimed not at burlesque. In all probability it was intended as a portrait of a patron or friend...