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Ponderously written by Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer and I.A.L. Diamond, and noisily directed by Howard Hawks, Monkey Business has some amusing monkeyshines. But the picture's simple-minded running gag wears thin long before the elixir of youth wears out for Gary and Ginger. Also prominently on hand: Marilyn Monroe as a pneumatic private secretary to whom Boss Coburn hands a sheaf of copy with the instruction: "Find someone to type this...
...routing corruption. Said the Democratic candidate: "I had not expected that from the general, and I will not repay him in kind. But I would thank him to read more carefully what I don't believe he would write himself. Moreover you'll forgive me if I gag a little when Republican politicians don the ill-fitting mantle of self-righteousness and deliver holier-than-thou sermons on morality...
...sunflowers": 75 feet high, being watered by a hook & ladder fire truck (see cut). "Firemen," said the News caption, "were called out when observers thought frankly they were seeing a stalled flying saucer." But the dozing Detroit A.P. bureau didn't read the fine print, missed the gag and sent out the picture over its wirephoto circuits as an authentic shot. Later, red-faced A.P. flashed its clients: "A kill is mandatory. Make certain the picture is not published." As a substitute, it sent out a picture of a real sunflower-only 14 feet high...
Right from the first, Sam had what must have struck his family as an unusual sense of humor. Almost as soon as he could walk, he grabbed a handful of worms and happily devoured them. Mother topped that gag with a dose of salts. Soon after that, Sam took to sleepwalking, wound up one night in a stable, "astride the old gray horse". . . yelling like a wild Indian and [thinking] he was running a race...
What is mind? The old gag answer, "No matter," is not good enough for medical science, but the experts still have a tough time explaining what little they know-of the relationship between mind and brain. Sir Russell Brain, one of Britain's top specialists in the workings of the nervous system, tackled the subject in a lecture at Cambridge University, which is published as The Contribution of Medicine to Our Idea of Mind (Cambridge University Press). He begins with a disclaimer and a definition: "I speak of the mind quite openly and unashamedly, not being one of those...