Word: chicos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, there are some good things about the show. Sammy Davis Jr., looking like an absurd Harlemization of Chico Marx, makes a wonderfully silly stinker out of Sportin' Life. The singing is generally good-particularly the comic bits by Pearl Bailey and the ballads by Adele Addison, who sings the role of Bess while Dorothy Dandridge acts it. And the color photography gains a remarkable lushness through the use of filters, though in time -2 hr. 36 min., including an intermission -the spectator may get tired of the sensation that he is watching the picture through amber-colored sunglasses...
Elmer Bernstein's music heightens the drama captured by the sensitive cameras of James Wong Howe, A.S.C. In addition, there are several jazz numbers by the Chico Hamilton quintet (plus guitar), a group whose modern arrangements lend a suitably syncopated rhythm. The screenplay, by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman (who wrote the book), is for the most part brilliant, capturing the lingo perfectly: "What am I? a bowl of fruit? a tangerine that peels itself?" Or: "Starting today, you could play marbles with his eyeballs." And the pace of director Alexander Mackendrick keeps up with that of the music...
Married. Leonard ("Chico") Marx, 67, the piano-playing Marx brother; and Mary De Vithas, 41, sometime cinemactress; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...vanished players had one thing in common: they were all Algerians. It was as if, overnight, the best Latin American baseball players in the major leagues-men like Chico Carrasquel, Bobby Avila, Minnie Minoso, Ruben Gomez-had fled the U.S. and challenged the Yankees and Braves for the world championship...
...Beat of My Heart (Tony Bennett, vocalist; Chico Hamilton, Art Blakey, Jo Jones, Billy Exiner, Candido, Sabu on drums; Columbia). Abetted chiefly by some wonderfully complex naked drum accompaniments, Singer Bennett launches his husky, finely pitched voice into an assortment of old favorites, makes them sound as strange and freshly minted as though they were written yesterday. The nervous, shifty-tempoed title song alone makes this one of the most intriguing vocal albums in months...