Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along with "White Heat" is "Counter Punch," the Metropolitan's latest Joe Palooka offering. If you enjoy watching a pair of windmills rabbit-punch each other interminably, this is for you. The protagonist of Ham Fisher's fair-haired comic strip is played by one Joe Kirkwood Jr., who says few words and keeps pretty much to himself. Mr. Kirkwood has recently been in court regarding the alleged paternity of a Worcester girl's small children, and his mindprobably was on other things when he made the movie...
...will be dramatized in the Rise of the Goldbergs . . ." With that feeble trumpet toot, the Goldberg family was off on a career that has included a run of 17 consecutive years on radio (only Amos 'n' Andy has run longer), a Broadway play and road company, a comic strip, vaudeville sketches and a television show (Mon. 9:30 p.m., CBS-TV). In all the years, the Goldbergs have never managed to climb out of their Bronx tenement at 1038 East Tremont Avenue (in real life, 1038 is a street intersection). The Goldbergs have never made Park Avenue...
Suspense (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS-TV). The Comic Strip Murder, with Lili Palmer...
...your article [TIME, Aug. 22] on romance comic magazines and their unusually good sales, you say: "The trend was so terrific that some of the old-style confession magazines confessed that they were in trouble." Presumably the trouble referred to was financial trouble, inasmuch as you quote from my midyear letter to our stockholders which reported a loss in the second quarter of 1949 of $11,635, after showing a profit in the first quarter...
...picture was intended as a burlesque of a familiar type of grade B melodrama. But with its air of sly sophistication it could also be taken as a subtler parody of standardized featherbrain farce. Every now & then, in unexpected bits of dialogue and situation, the film shows a fresh comic touch, but most of its effort is frittered away in indecision...