Word: cliches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lichtenstein's satiric cast overlooked pop itself. His Pistol, a banner made of felt, pokes fun at his fellow-cultists' ideals. Says he: "It is an exaggeration of a menacing, dangerous painting, a cliché describing modern painting done to an excessive degree, a play on the idea of a painting having a strong presence...
...reminiscent of Room at the Top, the camera shows waves of grass rippling idyllically -then cuts to another angle to show the backdrop of an ugly industrial town behind them. The film message is that there is room at the bottom for workers who still believe in the drab clichés of doctrinaire Communism. As the film's central figure, Jan Kačer plays a slogan-spouting, blockheaded factory worker -a model product of the Stalinist old regime. Representing the newer, more relaxed style of Communism are his cheeky blonde mistress (Jana Brejchová) and an impudent...
...person who is required to play strictly second banana is Ed McMahon, 44, who serves as straight man and prompter as well as announcer. For example, when Carson got caught in a dangling conversation and extricated himself with a cliché, "The grass is always greener," McMahon chimed in: "Could I write that down...
...takes place when Fonda finally gets the gumption to gun him down. Fortunately for the film, even the small roles are in the hands of some of the oldest pros in the business-among them Edgar Buchanan as a Government man and Lon Chancy as a bartender. Handling the clichés with the care of a cowpoke tending a tired palomino, they make Hard Times seem better than it is because they have been there before- many times. So has the audience...
...combines it with an up-from-wage-slavery plot dating from the social-protest '30s. The only novelty is that the protagonists are Negroes. While it affects to be a six-decade panorama of Negro advancement, the show is more like a petrified forest of liberal and sentimental clichés through which twinkles a fresh new mini-star, rising from television and supper clubs, Leslie Uggams...