Word: hillbillyism
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For the first of his new series, Hickman, now 41 and weighing 310 Ibs., surrounded himself with some actors who pretended to be reporters. They asked questions and joined him in laughing at his replies (sample: "Is it true that you'll eat anything, coach?" "I'll eat...
Tonight We're Setting the Woods on Fire (Jo Stafford and Frankie Laine; Columbia). Songstress Stafford throws her bestselling voice behind two trends: 1) a duet with another popular singer, and 2) a hillbilly song. This one is a razzmatazz spoof on a pair of country folk on their...
The manufacture of bootleg whisky, once pretty well confined to eleven Southern "moonshine" states, is no longer an amateur, hillbilly operation. Racketeers in big cities have made it big business. Big stills have been found in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Newark and New York. Thomas J. Donovan, vice president of Licensed...
More successful than the rather floridly filmed drama and melodrama of these three is the comedy of two other episodes. The Cop and the Anthem wisely casts Charles Laughton as a dapper old bum who unsuccessfully tries to get himself locked up in a warm jail for the winter. A...
Rosemary always sounds the way the pretty girls next door ought to sound. In the most sentimental of her hit records, Half as Much, her voice has an easy smoothness, an unsophisticated warmth. As she bounces along in Botch-a-Me, she adopts the tone of an earthy Italian mama...