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...Economist points out that "on the death of George IV in 1830 The Times declared in an editorial that: 'There never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures.' Cartoonists such as Gilfray, Rowlandson and Cruickshank attacked the monarch in a manner which would look savage even today.' This intense criticism and lack of respect for the monarchy did not produce a serious, widespread consideration to sack it. Edward VIII's abdication crisis in 1936 might have provided some civil liberties rationale for abolition, but it did not. It was clear that the monarchy practiced discrimination in dismissing members...
...Fred R. Cruickshank, a longtime friend of the Sullivan family, says his mother used to tell him a story about a lady who had met "Mickey the Dude" in city hall outside the welfare office...
Mickey did not know the woman, but when she told him that the welfare man wasn't doing anything for her, the city councillor said he'd take care of it. Sullivan then "laid the welfare man out in lather," according to Cruickshank...
...Cruickshank also says the family frequently took in people with no place to sleep for the night. "There was always someone living in their house," he says...
...young people who want them to act their age than the retirees in last year's film did. Mostly, though, Tough Guys is a lot of fun, particularly when Eli Wallach, as a furious, nearsighted hit man, is on the scene. Maybe the script by James Orr and Jim Cruickshank is a little flabby around the middle, and maybe Jeff Kanew's direction is a little wobbly on its pins toward the end, but those are forgivable, perhaps inevitable, flaws in a film about old folks...