Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sturges' whipping boy is one John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), director of such comic hits as So Long Sarong, Hey, Hey in the Hayloft, etc., who unexpectedly rebels, wants to make a sociological epic named Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Sullivan, outfitted as a tramp, goes on the bum to find out about life. His bosses, who came from that side of life, know all about it and want no reminders, have him tailed by a busload of studio publicists-just in case...
Your selection of Mr. Roosevelt as Man of the Year deserves great praise from clear-thinking subscribers. Winston Churchill's epic words, "Never have so many owed so much to so few," can include this magnanimous figure...
...guerrillas. But General Mihailovich has a radio sending station. His forces have countless portable radio receiving sets of the former Yugoslav Army. His war is not impromptu guerrilla warfare. It is an organized, continuous raiding operation-mobile, swift, deceptive-which in years to come will undoubtedly rank as an epic...
...York's LaGuardia Airport jump. He was not expecting an Atlantic Clipper, to say nothing of a Pacific Clipper. But he cleared the big ship into a landing and stood by to hear how come. What he heard was not just a flight report: it was an epic...
Sons o' Fun (produced by the Shuberts). Having given Hellzapoppin almost the national standing of the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument, Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson last week raised the curtain (and the roof) on a new epic of insanity. Sons o' Fun decidedly takes after its Hellzapoppa, even going him one better at times. But, just as clearly, its mother is an oldfashioned, hard-plugging show girl: a lot of the show is straight routine revue...