Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unwanted Rosebush. Finally, says Cox, "I started applying common sense to my pursuits." In 1948, he joined a Greenwich Village dramatics group. It soon folded, but his director encouraged him to go on alone. Cox polished up a few comic monologues, got a nightclub job, was soon working on radio & TV as well...
...social realism. With its U.S. dollars, Italian Films Export is staging a Hollywood-like "Italian Film Festival" in Manhattan in October, which will offer a different production every night for seven nights. They include Gogol's satiric The Overcoat; De Sica's tragic Umberto D.; the comic Little World of Don Camilla, a story of rivalry between a priest and a Communist leader; and a love story, Two Cents Worth of Hope, which shared first prize at the Cannes Film Festival and stars 15-year-old Maria Fiore in her first picture. The bill may be topped...
Although he claimed he hadn't had "anything to drink," barrel-shaped Comic Lou Costello apparently bowed to circumstantial evidence after he was hauled into the Van Nuys, Calif, jail on a drunken driving rap. The cops' version of Costello's night flight: Lou drove out of his driveway, bounced off both his gateposts, headed off without headlights on the wrong side of the street, finally heard the prowl car's siren and stopped halfway on the sidewalk. After his lawyer pleaded guilty for him and paid a $150 fine, Comic Costello was led back...
Crosby, complete with his Hollywood toupee, was as pleasantly relaxed and as glibly polysyllabic on TV as he is on radio and in the movies. He traded familiar insults with Bob Hope; exchanged small talk with Guest Dorothy Lamour; moaned in true TV-Comic fashion whenever the studio audience seemed lukewarm, and crooned such songs as Home on the Range. When the Telethon ended its allnight, two-network (CBS and NBC), stand, Hope, Crosby and friends had collected pledges for more than $1,000,000. Crosby also seems assured of a lively and profitable TV career whenever he wants...
...cost of Amerika ($150,000 last year) was well below the magazine's authorized budget of $500,000. She also launched other projects, including Yugoslav and Arabic editions of Amerika and a new magazine, Free World, now published in eleven languages in southeast Asia, plus propaganda comic books and numerous pamphlets...