Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louisiana Purchase (Paramount) is the kind of tasteful, tuneful, genial, comic job that Hollywood often boggles. But Paramount knew what it was up to a year ago when it drafted Broadway's Buddy De Sylva, producer of the Broadway original, and made him production head of the studio...
Good as Mr. Moore is, he has to bank on the turns to stay ahead of Comic Bob Hope, the Flexible Flyer. Each of them is a hilarious mixture of dopey dove and smart serpent. Hope's style of comedy (the dead-pan wisecrack, the unembarrassed exhibition-e.g., demonstrating the correct way to don a woman's girdle) is designed for counterpunching. His performance is patly complementary to that of Victor Moore, who has been around long enough (66 years) to know how to handle enthusiastic young comics without either stealing or being stolen from...
...vibrated like cold made-lightning between the cathodes of the most fluoroscopic symbolism and the most granitic naturalism. In Finnegans Wake naturalism and the artist himself all but disappear; the book is a shimmering death-dance of chameleon-like symbols; an attempt at nothing less than a complete serio-comic history of human consciousness-in Levin's neat phrase, a "doomsday book," culminating in a Phoenician paradox of dissolution and resurrection...
Usually well-informed sources close to the Committee indicated last night that the Mole's supporters all over the country have been putting pressure on Chester Gould, creator of "Dick Tracy" to destroy his hero "like an earthworm" and make the Mole the central figure of his comic strip...
Died. Sol Hess, 69, comic-strip creator (The Nebbs); of a heart attack; in Chicago. Wholesale jeweler, no artist, he dreamed up The Nebbs in 1923, found a cartoonist to draw his ideas...