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Phillip laZebnik's lyrics are at their best sublimely witty in the tradition of Noel Coward. Cole Porter and Tom Lehrer. "We'll be the perfect duet Two mouths sucking the same Sucret." "Call up Ronald Reagan and ask for my Friend Flicka." There are ten songs in the long first act, and nine in the second act, which is only 40 per cent as long. Some of these--"Power to Persuade" and "Team Song are the standouts--are clearly what makes the second act so much tighter than the first. The script is not quite funny enough--though...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Slightly Foxed | 3/1/1975 | See Source »

...lives, but Peter perishes. Unfazed, Jane gets hung up on his black stallion. It's all terribly kinky, with Peter in his leather pants, Jane in her Story of O décolletage, and the stallion with his quivering nostrils and muscular flanks-a porno graphic My Friend Flicka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Two Dead Spirits Out of Three | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...regular theater releases). ¶ Republic and Monogram, once standard "B" producers, have turned almost entirely to TV filmmaking. ¶20th Century-Fox is spending $2,000,000 to prepare for TV deals much like Warner's. One planned series will be based on refuibished oldies, e.g., My Friend Flicka. ¶Universal-International, M-G-M and Paramount are watching the competition with an accountant's eye. Said U.-I.'s President Milton Rackmil: "Any decision [to plunge into TV] hinges on the profits." Major clue to Hollywood's interest in TV deals lies in the booming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who Pays the Alimony? | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...Adam Wyngate is the story of Pastor Wyngate's collapse, and a social novel of changing moral skies in turn-of-the-century America. For Mary O'Hara, author of such western idyls as My Friend Flicka and Thunderhead, it represents an ambitious departure; but she writes of a time and place she knows, since Novelist O'Hara grew up on Brooklyn Heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Brooklyn Heights, 1906 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

Green Grass of Wyoming (20th Century-Fox). Thunderhead, son of My Friend Flicka (Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, 1945; My Friend Flicka, 1943), is a wild, spectacular white stallion who gallops magnificently from ranch to ranch scrounging beautiful young mares by the dozen and leading them off to his harem deep in the hills. In the current installment this beguiling libertine is transformed into as meek a monogamist as ever commuted from Westchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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