Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bramble Bush, Mergendahl...
Even by Sketch's dustbin standards, this was not much of a story. Shiv, an Indian maharajah's son, is a bush-league playboy-not, say, in Porfirio Rubirosa's class. Jane was an insatiable romanticist who could, if need be, wriggle through a love affair in five minutes. What's more, she had a husband and two-year-old daughter in the West Indies, where she had left them nearly two years...
...Bramble Bush, Mergendahl...
This change of character is further intensified by the ineffectual, boyish performance of Horst Buchholz, who plays the title role. Instead of the dashing Felix, Buchholz is an embarrassed bush leaguer playing in the big-time. Except for the highly humorous draft-dodging scene, Buchholz does not command the situation. This is indeed unfortunate, because although the other acting is quite sufficient, the role of Felix completely dominates the story...
...Goldilocks rather fits the formula it at one point joshes: it is "first of all a love story, a tale of two lovers in love with each other." The Stritch-Ameche romance has none of the sogginess of musicomedy librettos, but it has their dogged, round-the-mulberry-bush complications. Despite nice up-to-date frills and out-of-date furbelows, Goldilocks has neither a 1958 freshness nor a 1913 charm; it has chiefly Broadway know...