Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tries to write juve-in-the-groove talk, he betrays his age (51) with the sort of yacketa ("Gee, that's absolutely mystic!") that may make moviegoers under 20 smile and shake their heads sadly. But when he straightens up and writes right, he gets off some pretty cute lines. He (seductively): "Tuggle, are you a good girl?" She (anxiously): "T.V., I don't want to disillusion you." He (eagerly) : "I won't be disillusioned. Say anything!" She (reassured): "Yes. I am." He (stunned...
Mother Goose (Cyril Ritchard, Celeste Holm, Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Arch without being cute, this trio skips through the old rhymes like verbal jump ropes. In gleeful self-amazement, Actor Ritchard triple-tongues Peter Piper's pickled peppers ("I didn't break down, you see"). Hershy Kay's musical punctuation is pert and pertinent, unfailingly delights, never intrudes...
...Filene's window-Santas have to worry about working full-time. Every 45 minutes they are spelled by one of two cute little sprigs, both called Miss Holly. Four more Miss Hollys aid Santa inside the store where he carries through his policy of person-to-person diplomacy. On each of the visitors, Miss Holly pins a rectangular piece of cardboard: "Santa's Merit Badge...
...screenplay for Brink of Life, is as clear and grave as a Mass. The actors, as always finely disciplined by Bergman, behave as formally as acolytes. The photography is as beautiful as it generally is in Bergman's pictures, but if anything more plain-there are very few cute shots to catch the eye. In the European version of the film the scenes of rape and murder are direct, unmitigated, appalling. In the U.S. version the scenes are, in effect, castrated by false modesty, and as a result they tease the imagination instead of smiting the heart. The damage...
Peter Loves Mary (NBC) is meant to suggest that folks in show biz are just as cute, lovable and revolting as anybody else. The expertly tibbled story line about a man-and-wife comedy team has the requisite cynical children, the coy, sex-crazed housekeeper, and the jolly Broadway agent, naturally called Happy. In last week's first installment, Peter Lind Hayes, as the TV comic who cracked up over the air because his family insists on living in the strange, frightening suburbs, and Mary Healy as his wife, whose gay indifference to his suffering singled...