Word: gee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...middle acts, to be fair, are not consistently dismal. Babe, before he turned director and playwright, was the finest comic actor in the College, and the comic moments of his Councillors Eff and Gee are, (assisted by the talents of Timothy Mayer and Michael Ehrhardt), his smoothest drama. But there is too much mummery, too many blood red bubbles in the well and strange noises in the night, for the midsection to cohere; it collapses under a load of unnecessary mysticism and unnecessary explication which the Stranger (Philip Kerr) most represents...
...contented tarantula. The real star of the show is Scenarist Richard Matheson, who has written three or four of the hairiest lines of the year. One of them is delivered by Lorre in a spooky cellar hung with colossal cobwebs, choked with sickly dust, and populated with rustling vermin. "Gee," he mutters to Price as he glances uneasily about the scene. "Hard place to keep clean...
...through this bushwa. Sodom is presented as a mighty metropolis, the New York of the Negev; actually, it was more like the Atlantic City of the Dead Sea, a boom town that got brimstoned about 1900 B.C. And the Bible story, as Producer Lombardo tells it, has plenty of gee whiz but very little Genesis. Lot (Stewart Granger) is shown as an athletic saint who spends most of his time improbably clobbering swordsmen with a shepherd's crook. His wife (Pier Angeli) is shown as a scarlet woman of Sodom who looks back at the destruction of her home...
...endure. As if to make sure that they did, he published most of them in his book City Editor. "Pick adjectives,'' he said, "as you would pick a diamond or a mistress." He defined the newsroom as "part seminary, part abattoir," divided all sportswriters into two schools: "Gee Whiz!" and "Aw Nuts!" Freud was "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido," New York's fiery Mayor La Guardia a man who would "bite in the clinches," the reading public a "drowsy, dangerous dinosaur." For working journalists, he boiled the Ten Commandments...
...surprisingly wise little comedy adapted by Isobel Lennart from the Broadway success (1958-59) by Playwright William Gibson. Like the play, the film tells the story of Gittel's affair with a visiting fireman who has run out of steam, a lawyer (Robert Mitchum) from Omaha whose problems gee with Gittel's. She has been a doormat for men, he has been a lap dog for his wife. He needs self-reliance, she needs self-respect...