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...Club, Wanger rapped U.S. film critics as "immature and incompetent," singled out Critic Art Buchwald of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, who had panned the Wanger-produced Joan of Arc. Forthwith, Critic Buchwald challenged Wanger to a duel. Sending no seconds, Wanger retorted: "A cheap gag...
...which will be left to Rank, two are shut tight and two are operating at only half their capacity. Last week, Rank and his subsidiaries had just four productions before the cameras, compared with ten a year ago. An actor at liberty summed it up with an old Hollywood gag: "Out at the Rank studios it's so quiet you can hear an option drop...
Also present for their first movie appearance: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, a funny song & gag team from radio and the nightclubs...
Wynn had promised to bring to TV "something old and something new, but nothing borrowed and nothing blue." In his opening telecast, there were a few borrowings (e.g., the ancient gag of casually lifting an outsized dumbbell from the straining hand of a strongman), and one skit, if not blue, verged on the off-color (Wynn coyly repelling the advances of Singer Gertrude Niesen...
...with dance fans, and was all set to make an even bigger one. For their first appearance on a vaudeville bill in Chicago's Palace Theater, they had a wow comic-hat routine to go with I Wish I Was In Peoria and a noisy harness gag for Thanks for the Buggy Ride. But they put their new act on only once. Stormed the theater manager: "For the $4,000 a week we're paying you, we can get a good comedian for every man in the band. Cut out the monkey business. Just give the people what...