Word: gangsterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although based on standard and sometimes tired jokes, the songs often had last night's audience roaring with laughter. Particularly successful were "Bureaucracy Calypso," a slap at modern urban government, "Living in the Twilight," which describes the life of the gangster associated with government and has suspicious echoes of West Side Story, and the "Accusatory Bop," a wild rock 'n roll bit in the grand style...
...Bobby Doyle" of Stamford, Conn., as triggerman in three 1930 slayings, a Stamford businessman named Robert Doyle, who was twelve years old in 1930, began getting nasty phone calls. Next day, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff protested, and Valachi remembered that his Bobby Doyle, an alias for Gangster Girolamo Santuccio, lived in Hartford. Chairman McClellan allowed that he was "awfully sorry" about the mistake, but a good many people thought that it was disgraceful for the Senate to permit Valachi to broadcast rumors and hearsay. Said Maine's Democratic Edmund Muskie, a committee member: "What a waste...
...historical approach to Bogart is possible this spring because the Brattle has programmed thirteen (count 'em) of the master's movies in one-day shots, guaranteed to ruin any carefully planned study schedule. The interested viewer can follow Bogie from his bit roles in George Raft type gangster films through the "classic" private eye series of the 'Forties to the start of his final ("warning" or "mature," depending on your preference) period...
...Casablanca (1943) and Big Sleep (1946), and a number of clever near-misses like To Have and Have Not (1945), Key Largo (1947), and Dark Passage (1947) brighten the canon of Bogie films in the 'Forties, which includes a good number of dull patriotic epics (Passage to Marseilles) and gangster potboilers. During the making of the cinema landmarks, a famous team of Bogart, Lauren Bacall ("If you want anything, just whistle."), Sydney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Peter Lorre gathered together. The swansong of the team, its leader, and the whole crime movie genre came with Beat the Devil...
Fred Gardner's story "Admiration" talks about the seamy side of garment worker society in the Depression. Gardner's hero is a Jewish gangster, with a heart, naturally. "Admiration" is not a world-shaking story, but Gardner writes Yiddish dialogue with accuracy and verve...