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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mobster Luciano, pimp and drug peddler, was beginning to look like a nice guy -if anybody believed the columns. Since he had been sprung from prison and deported to Italy, some of the columnists had discovered a heart of gold beating under his silk shirt. Somehow, said the keyhole-peepers, Lucky from his prison cell had helped the U.S. win the war. The Mirror's Walter Winchell solemnly assured his readers that after Lucky died, the Congressional Medal of Honor would be awarded...
...parties. He was the softest touch in town. His friends told him that hangers-on sometimes "borrowed" up to $50 from Joe's pants while he was taking a bath, but Joe didn't seem to mind. Said he: "Money ain't everything, unless a poor guy ain't got it." Once when a crony told Joe that he wanted to put on an all-Negro show, Joe reached mechanically for his checkbook, asked his friend, "Will...
...pantomime and well-timed gags, M.G.M. has wisely injected a bit of pathos into the comedy. Cast as a well-meaning, but deadly boor, Red Skelton takes "The Showoff" through a series of heart breaking mishaps with amazing dexterity and an almost embarrassing reality. A living portrait of the guy who would break his leg while putting on a hat, Skelton uses his comedy style to give moviegoers something funny and at the same time touching. It's a long haul between laughs in the first attraction at the U.T. and for those who don't like Adolph Menjon well...
Last week, Rocky was deep in trouble for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer (TIME, Feb. 3). At Stillman's Gym, the boys were .whispering about him. Said one: "I say he shouldn't get it ... he done right dint he ... he nixes the guy, don't he?" Said another: "He goes ... I say he gets it." The man in the street didn't want to see Rocky "get it" too hard. Rocky had turned down the bribe, even if he hadn't reported it (though he had reportedly feigned a sore back...
Born. To Alan Ladd Jr., 33, green-eyed cinema tough guy, and Sue Carol Ladd, 38, actor's agent, onetime star: their second child, first son; in Hollywood. Name: undecided. Weight...