Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Postman Always Rings Twice, at Loew's State and Orpheum. M-G-M's treatment of James M. Cain's novel about ham-and-eggs sex in California...
...your high-powered fact-finding sensation mongers would like to visit this "sleepier" town, the Chamber of Commerce will pay your fare here & return by Pullman or plane, feed you on Southern fried chicken and hickory-cured Kentucky ham with all the trimmings, and, what is more, we'll even try to wear our shoes while you are here...
Every Saturday morning, Herson plants a WRC microphone on some Congressman's breakfast table, gives & takes an ad-lib chatter over ham & eggs. The only rule: no politics. Beyond that, Senators and Representatives and their families discuss every subject that should be aired and some that shouldn...
...keep it so, Matt Winn has a bustling publicity staff, including almost everybody in central Kentucky, working for nothing. Professional Kentuckians, over the traditional Derby breakfast (Kentucky ham and beaten biscuits), talk grandly of fine horses, fine whiskey, fine tobacco, and beautiful women. The race is the red stuffing in a very plump olive. Kentuckians, acting for one week the way Texans and Southern Californians do for 52, are out-this year, after three wartime "streetcar" Derbies, way out-to welcome the free-spending outlanders...
...Palooka, Champ (Monogram). This lowly "B" production is a highly intelligent animation of Ham Fisher's comic strip-or of what the strip was before it got "significance." In really brilliant style it strikes precisely the comic-strip attitude-the understatement of motion, the two-dimensional, parodic life. The villain of the piece (Eduardo Ciannelli) never peeks out from behind his leer; the heroine (Elyse Knox) is rich but unspoiled; the hero (Joe Kirkwood Jr.) is profoundly respectful of his mother, and as innocent as if he had never had a man-to-man talk with his father...