Word: gangsterized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...biography and on his own impressions, Show Business Writer John McPhee went to work on his cover story about the remarkable girl who impersonates the remarkable Fanny Brice. Meanwhile, Senior Editor A. T. Baker wanted to know what ever happened to Nicky Arnstein, Fanny Brice's former gangster husband, who was last heard of years ago somewhere in Los Angeles. TIME'S Hollywood Reporter Joyce Haber mobilized the help of three police departments, the Nevada Gaming Control Board, the intelligence unit of the Treasury Department, lawyers, nightclub owners, columnists and several helpful hoodlums. She finally tracked him down...
Does anyone still care? Sure, a little. Director Jean-Pierre Melville keeps his expert cast zipping right along, pursued by a camera that emphasizes the gritty black-and-whites of his murderous milieu. Admittedly hooked on oldtime U.S. gangster movies, Melville manages to make Paris look like the back lot at Warner Brothers. Doulos, in consequence, seldom seems more than an ambitious hybrid, a gangland epic with Gaul...
...also said of the Post that it was "a good paper that needs a lot of improvement." That description fits too. Its Washington coverage is often superior, and farseeing. It exposed and then led the fight against Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court-packing bill. Concerned by the rising gangster influence on U.S. politics, Phil Graham handed U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver the idea for a congressional investigation. A Post editorial campaign helped assure civilian control of the Atomic Energy Commission. Measuring the paper's direct impact on Government, the late Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the London Daily Mail...
...HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Hope, Kathryn Grant (Mrs. Bing Crosby) and Jill St. John in a slice-of-lifer about a middle-class couple who buy a house next to a notorious gangster. Color...
...There is something very sick about our country when an anti-Communist Christian lady like Mme. Nhu is vilified by the U.S. press and a Communist gangster like Tito is invited to the White House...