Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ernest in Love. Lee Pockriss' engaging music grafts smoothly onto Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest...
...Billy's collaborators," says a friend, "are just $50,000 secretaries." They sit at a typewriter while Billy strides feverishly up and down, slashing the air with a swagger stick, frothing at the mouth with dialogue and situation. On the set, Wilder is relaxed, ribald but in deadly earnest about his work. He is so sure of what he wants that he wastes an amazingly small amount of film footage. Says Billy: "All that's left on the cutting-room floor when I'm through are cigarette butts, chewing-gum wrappers and tears. A director must...
With the slow decline of the great Mayan Empire, the lesser kingdoms of ancient Mexico were free to begin fighting in earnest among themselves. What happened to the people of Remojadas-whether they were conquered or became tribute payers to a succession of aggressors-no one knows. All that is known is that gradually the laughter ceased...
...about as much relation to Jack Kerouac's novel as Hollywood does to Endsville, Producer Arthur Freed attempts to sell the beatniks back to the mass culture they are desperately and often comically trying to escape. He shaves them down, scrubs them up and presents them, in deadly earnest, as pioneers in the great American tradition, as "The Young Bohemians . . . the makers of the future." Unhappily, the notion is so translucently ludicrous and the picture so poorly put together that in box-office terms all this cold-water flattery will probably get the moviemakers nowhere...
Ernest in Love. Lee Pockriss' engaging music grafts smoothly onto Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, in an adaptation that is careful not to shatter the original's cut-glass dialogue...