Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contract to begin on CBS next season, with an option after two years for a third year at $4,000,000.* This fat deal, Gleason admits, was in the works for some time. In fact, NBC was in on the dickering, too. "All you gotta do," says Gleason, "is rub two networks together and you get a fire." When the figures were set. Jackie recalled: "First they said $6,000,000 and my mouth dropped open. They mistook it for reticence and upped it a million." The new contract calls for a half-hour filmed show featuring Gleason...
...screw up his face a little more as each scene reaches new heights of emotional seriousness. By the grand climactic scene, when he goes to his dead wife's sister to plead for the return of his baby girl, the grimace has reached Hallowe'en proportions. "I gotta have 'er back," he pleads, "because she looks like Helen." Since Helen is played by Elizabeth Taylor, the suggestion is somewhat ludicrous...
...gotta home an' I wanna' git goin...
...gotta home and I want to git goin...
Into Tin Pan Alley's Broadway capitol, the Brill Building, there passes each day a hustling parade of tunesmiths and music agents, each hopeful that he carries the answer to a song publisher's prayer. "This number is the greatest," one says, or "I gotta song here, it'll fracture 'em." The publishers buy such songs in the hundreds each year, and record-company presses compound the fractures by turning them out with the regularity of automatic cooky cutters. The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court...