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...exist. Here is a cottonpicking Uncle Tom (Godfrey M. Cambridge) who hymns the supposedly subservient spirituals and cringes, hat in hand, before the white man ("You dah boss, Boss"). Here is the bighearted, yuk-yuk-yukking Southern mammy (Helen Martin). Here is the corn-pone simpleton (Ruby Dee) who says things like "Indo. I deed." Here is the unlicensed preacher hero, Purlie Victorious Judson (Ossie Davis)-a liar, a braggart, a trickster, and the self-appointed messiah of his race ("Who else is they got?"). And here, too, is the neo-Confederate villain, Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee (Sorrell...
...dee-bi-bob," swings one cat, "Mr. President, bang-de-dawd-o-dawd, do you think-de-ding-di-dink the education bill will pass, dingy dong de-doong...
...else. But dollars and rubles would wreck the Concordian economy, which has operated smoothly for hundreds of years because the money it circulates is worthless. The Concordian leader counters by promoting a romance between Igor Romanoff (John Gavin), son of the Russian ambassador, and Juliet Mouls-worth (Sandra Dee), daughter of the American ambassador...
...same back-slapping Americans and tractor-worshipping Russians who have populated every cold war farce, the viewer may well decide that what the world needs even more than international accord is some new international jokes. But the Ninotchka-era jokes are presented with considerable spirit, and Actors Gavin and Dee, the missile-crossed lovers, are cuddly as puppies. Writer-Director Ustinov gives himself the best lines and delivers them with practiced waggery. When the town-hall clock goes out of order, he laments that "our national tragedy is that we have been occupied by every nation except the Swiss...
...invested a total of $348,800.000 in the four media in 1960, a bare 1% increase over 1959. There was only minor reshuffling among the top ten: American Home Products (Equanil, Anacin, Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Foods) and General Mills (Wheaties, Bisquick, Betty Crocker baking mixes) each advanced two notches; Lever Brothers and Ford fell back...