Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discover a new subject, the first few pictures were rather good, simply because they were a change from the regular Hollywood diet. But inevitably the change came; the plots became stereotyped, the characters lost originality, and all in all the pictures became the ordinary run-of-the-mill Hollywood corn...
...Confirm or Deny" is the perfect example of this corn, it has all t he ingredients. First of all, there is Don Ameche, who plays the role of a hardboiled American reporter in London during the great German air bombardment of September, 1940. He is all that Hollywood expects a foreign correspondent to be--which is more like a side-show barker than anything else. And although to some people his jowls and teeth make him look like a Walt Disney rabbit, especially when he smiles, he can probably be considered handsome in the bargain. Then there is Joan Bennett...
Saint-Exupéry brought plane and crew safely back. His gas and oil tanks were pierced, but the rubber lining sealed them. He also brought back a personal proof of the profoundest of Christian texts: Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit...
Actors Hepburn and Tracy have a fine old time in Woman of the Year. They take turns playing straight for each other, act one superbly directed love scene, succeed in turning several batches of cinematic corn into passable moonshine. As a lady columnist, she is just right; as a working reporter, he is practically perfect. For once, strident Katharine Hepburn is properly subdued. When she met her leading man for the first time, before shooting began, she observed: "I'm afraid I am a little tall for you, Mr. Tracy." Said he: "Don't worry, Miss Hepburn...
...Committee: no law, he said, stopped him from unloading Government stocks, at Government prices, privately, for the war needs of other Government departments. He could have his surplus wheat made into bread to feed the Army & Navy, his cotton into sheets and shirts to sleep and clothe them, his corn into alcohol for their shells. When the Senators were still skeptical (the price bill prohibits "sale or disposition" of Government-held stocks except as provided in other limiting acts), he said he "understood" that the question had already been referred to Attorney General Francis Biddle for a ruling...