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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (20th Century-Fox) easily slides home as the year's most hilarious movie. It will vastly amuse, if not stupefy, all who adore or detest television and the institution of advertising. Bearing virtually no kinship to George Axelrod's play of the same name, this Success, a happy direct descendant of custard-pie slapstick, is one of the silliest strings of sight-and-sound gags ever to jounce through the sober inhibitions of staid latter-day Hollywood. Producer-Director-Writer Frank Tashlin, a onetime Disney cartoonist and sketching fabulist (The Bear That Wasn...
...Kind, Too Royal. The hungry population grew to detest the lively, impudent, extravagant Queen. The birth of a royal heir, though long awaited,† did nothing to feed men's bellies, and the advancement of the Queen's favorites only worsened a government already too feeble to tackle the nation's economic problems. The clumsy Louis became increasingly ineffectual, too kind to be tough, too royal to be radical, and the weaker he grew the more boldly the Queen assumed his powers. When the Revolution began, many moderates took the side of the King and Queen...
...completely detest Dave Beck's using the Fifth Amendment. However, I would rather see 100 money-mad union leaders get away with it rather than one teacher, entertainer or newspaperman scoff in the same manner when it concerns Communism...
...tongued, America-baiting Nancy (Love in a Cold Climate) Mitford,* 52, was induced to refight the Revolutionary War by the New York Herald Tribune's Paris Postscripter Art Buchwald. Asked what American she dislikes most, gentle Nancy, whose foot has never touched U.S. soil, replied: "Abraham Lincoln. I detest Abraham Lincoln. When I read the book The Day Lincoln Was Shot, I was so afraid he would go to the wrong theater. What was the name of that beautiful man who shot him?" "John Wilkes Booth." "Yes, I liked him very much!" Does Nancy like any other Americans? "Your...
America may look askance at France and Britain for their North African show of force but has it forgotten why Hungary is under the bloody Russian boot today? The American people may detest colonialism, but they voted four times in a row for Roosevelt am his cohorts of so-called liberals, who did more to establish Communist colonialism in the West than any other influence outside Russia. The thought was denounced as immoral at the time, and those who saw in Russia the danger of the future were branded as fascists and almost traitors...