Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood's bachelor Congressman, grey-thatched John M. Costello, member of the Military Affairs Committee, flew to the coast with Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold and Britain's Sir John Dill for a quick inspection of aircraft plants. To John Costello the aircraft workers unburdened themselves: they were shocked when they saw the first tax deduction on their paychecks. They did not mind paying now, but how long would this...
...Universal) is Abbott & Costello's eleventh time around in the movies. There is every indication from most audiences that sheer, unspecialized hokum continues to have a power of appeal rivaling that of Mozart or the Gettysburg Address...
...this one, A. & C. are a couple of loony candid cameramen. There are such howls as Costello's emergence from a garbage can during a bank stickup. Says he: "What's a bank got to be stuck up about?" Then there is the uproarious moment when the sheet falls off the stretcher, revealing that Costello is really walking down the street holding before him a pair of crutches with shoes affixed to their ends. The boys' gagmen have apparently been busy with one of the largest card indexes in Hollywood. The picture comes closest to comic originality...
After one of the best double bills in history ("Saludos Amigos" and "Air Force"), the U.T. balances out the week with one of the worst. The second feature isn't so bad, but the Abbott-Costello opus would take the sting out of 20 other "A" pictures. Like Laurel and Hardy, Wheeler and Woolsey, A. and C. don't know when to stop. Right now they're riding the original wave of popularity which started two years ago, and their motto seems to be "Nothing new has been added...
...Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomine. No, Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They Got Me Covered" has two advantages over previous...