Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rush lay in the fact that I had spent part of the year in writing a book about a Third Avenue bar [Third Avenue, New York; Little, Brown; $2]. This is close, but no cigar; I understand that in reality, my failure to report three times weekly in Tim Costello's Social Register Saloon on Third Avenue, a grogshop sometimes known as the Almanac de Gotha Bar & Grill, was one cause of my dismissal...
...thundering El, Irish bars and French bistros alternate with English and Swedish restaurants. Most famed: P. J. ("Paddy") Clarke's saloon at 55th Street, enlivened by the stuffed figure of the original four-legged Paddy, who used to deliver buckets of beer to regular patrons; Tim Costello's, jampacked with newspapermen, its walls decorated with original Thurber drawings; the fabulously expensive Chambord (pompano and pheasant...
...Time of Their Lives (Universal) also features a big, old tree which is inhabited by spirits. This time the spirits are the unhappy ghosts of departed mortals. The movie would be of interest to no one but fans of Comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, except that it underscores a mild Hollywood trend toward fantasy. (In pictures soon to be released, such diverse types as Keenan Wynn and Paul Muni also play ghosts...
Much of the comedy in The Time of Their Lives hinges on Costello's efforts to .get his very substantial-looking nonsubstance through a closed door. Killed during the American Revolution, he has not yet quite mastered, in 1946, the seemingly difficult trick of dematerialization...
...already rolled in the sawdust. Top men on Radio Row had decided that the public was fed up with straight gag shows, wanted its humor coated with a story. So off the air went Danny Kaye ("too arty"), and off went Cass Daley (whose Hooper rating had skidded). Abbott & Costello hoped to save themselves with a new routine...