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Hope is 60. His pace is, if anything, faster than it was when he was 20. As Moo Goo Gai Poo, he will play the ruler of Viet-Poo on TV this week, opposite Martha Raye as Mme. Poo. He is off to Australia next month and is planning a tour of U.S. bases in the Mediterranean area to entertain U.S. soldiers far from home on Christmas Day. Offstage as on, when strangers are around him, he can't stop quipping. "Hey, I'm learning humility," he will say. "I called up my agent today and asked...
...every navel within reach and made her debut as a Met choreographer nothing more than a tawdry reminder of her old Haitian dance suites. Uniformly brave performances and sensitive conducting by Georg Sold were not enough to counteract such problems, and Verdi's tragedy sank into the goo without a tear...
...Tweedle Dumb and Twiddle Dee. And the production, like all of Ross Hunter's productions (Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace), is in the cheapest kind of expensive bad taste. It's the sort of picture, in short, in which the heroine wears 32 costumes but only one expression: goo-goo eyes...
...feminine methods that seem to be universally practiced persuades him to turn the moon rocket into ("Captain? H-his voice is changing. No! Th-there's a woman in the capsule! CAPTAIN! WHAT'S GOING ON UP THERE!") a honeymoon rocket. At the fade all systems are goo...
...have marshmellowed Jerome Weidman. His 1937 bestselling novel stingingly chronicled the rise of a Manhattan Garment District amoralist named Harry Bogen who was sharper than a Seventh Avenue lapel. In fashioning a musical from that book. Weidman has turned his whole-souled heel into a halfhearted villain, poured sentimental goo over the satire, and given Harry a last-scene redemptive delousing unmatched since the Hays office took in ethical cleansing...