Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Manhattan's studiously select swankery, the Stork Club, came notice that hefty (circa 260 Ibs.), raffish TV Comic Jackie Gleason had been tossed out on his leer. With him went his blonde companion of the evening. Complained the Stork's Boss Sherman Billingsley: "He was drunk and rowdy, and the girl was even drunker. We don't welcome that caliber of person as a patron." Wailed Gleason: "I thought it was a joke...
...immunization shots and other elementary health measures. Chicago's polio outbreak last year was "centered in Southern white migrant areas." Said Miss Browning: "They have the lowest moral code, if any, of any [group], the biggest capacity for liquor and the most savage and vicious tactics when drunk, which is most of the time." Police say that they would need 2,000 extra officers to cope with hillbilly crime; educators have urged special grade-less schools for their children. But short of sending hillbillies back to the hills-and city officials are not even sure how many there...
...other focal character is a derelict doctor who, we are rather imperfectly told, came to town years before with his wife and the climate drove him to drink. He operated on her in childbirth when he was drunk, and she died. He is more or less expiating his deed as a futile, filthy, good-hearted drunk and buffoon. The central theme is largely the story of his "redemption" as he responds to the need of those around him in the plague, and to the widow's new-found attraction to him, and of her "acceptance" of things as they...
...Ferguson is completely believable as the sister-in-law, mixing resentment for her toiling and skimping with a warmth and tenderness. James Stinson plays her sympathetic husband with suitable low pressured earnestness. Roger Moldovan is more than effective in the lead, without being over-sentimental. Robert Hesse looks properly drunk and idiotic in the walk-on part, and Lee Jefferies is suberbly plastered as an old love of the hero who intrudes at an inconvenient moment...
...production. As Doctor Astrov, Robert Jordan is extraordinarily right. His skillful make-up helps his exceptional voice and delightful, slightly grand manner; he becomes both noble and sad, within seriousness, especially in his most effective scene, and displays a remarkable facility in portraying comedy where he is drunk. As Vanya, John Mautner is at moments persuasive. His performance vacillates uneasily, however, and his awkward arms and constantly nervous voice and eyes were occasionally distracting. Even if Vanya is nervous, Mautner could well be more relaxed...