Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomime. 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...
Movie exhibitors reported that the cinemactor who had made them the most money in 1942 was a team: (Bud) Abbott & (Lou) Costello. The boisterous comics shouldered out boisterous Mickey Rooney, who slipped to fourth in the poll after leading it for three years. Second biggest moneymaker has been in the Army five months-Clark Gable, one of the top ten ever since the poll was first taken eleven years ago. Gary Cooper ran third. Newcomer to the golden gang: golden Betty Grable, who ran eighth...
...script gets off on the wrong foot by surrounding them with such a loony murder story that their own looniness scarcely registers. But it would not hit very hard, in any event. Eight Abbott & Costello comedies appear to have exhausted the team...
...Costello: Is he on this murder case...
...Done It? may allow even the most thoroughly mesmerized Abbott & Costello subject to slip from his trance...