Word: gits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stroyed by Dr. Chay-iz-wi-yuck," says Tammy (Sandra Dee). "When he isn't around, Ah git such a sweetly sa-yud emptiness that it jest cree-yups through the crannies of man beein'. It's got me plum' discombobulated." Observes Dr. Cheswick (Peter Fonda), with face as straight (and wooden) as a tongue depressor: "I like the way you say things, Tammy-it's so unusual." In line of duty, Sandra proves to be a Florence Nightmare. She discovers a patient in the process of operating his neck-traction rig, dashes into...
...almost succeeds in heisting the show from Danny when in the last reel, Telly-on the Diners' Club-rents Avis Fords, gladiolus bouquets, peony-print bridesmaids' outfits, redheaded office girls, and messengers on bicycles to stage a gangland wedding getaway. Danny Kaye does not even have a git-gat-gittle patter song to reassure audiences that they are watching him and not Jerry Lewis. What's more he seems to know that there is something fishy about his getting caught in this eat-now-pay-later bouillabaisse...
Kaye's best are still his standards, the git-gat-gittle song like Minnie the Moocher and Ludwig von Shtickfritz; no one but the D'Oyly Carte's Martyn Green has ever pattered half so perfectly. Though he laces his act with impossible puns and games ("That's the way De Gaulle bounces," or "Under the spreading psychiatry"), nothing diminishes the pure delight of his tour in a thousand dialects through the world's locker rooms, or his Begin the Beguine as sung by a matinee idol who can do everything but carry a tune...
...Git on boa'd, little chillun! Git on boa'd, big chillun! Git on boa'd, all de chillun! Dere's room fo' many...
...dozen. My father knows Mickey Man'le, an' Roger Maris too." "Wow! Kin ya git me a autograph pitcha?" "Sure...