Word: hokum
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...lies"), Robert Emmett Dolan's score is rather do-re-mealy for Johnny Mercer's lyrics, which are at their cleverest in Bon Vivant, delivered by Lahr impersonating a British peer with mauve tweeds and a stiff upper lisp. In fact, without Bert Lahr's vintage hokum, Foxy would be earthbound, not mirthbound...
...quick trip to a Bogart movie, where tensions can be worked out by that funny little man who hits back so hard when he gets pushed too far. And no callow youth is really a Harvard Man if he has never seen Casablanca-- the all-time hunk of cinema hokum--during exam period...
Oliver! Lionel Bart, 31, is not too proud to help Charles Dickens, Immortal. In "freely adapting" Oliver Twist, Britisher Bart, who wrote book, music and lyrics, has blue-penciled out the socially conscious harshness of Dickens, and mauve-penciled in the timeless hokum of Showland...
Lured by the same artistic bait, Sir Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr. and Dean Stockwell also agreed to work for less. Landau saved further by eliminating the expensive teams of scriptwriters who customarily turn a theater classic into unrecognizable hokum. Last week Landau, who has long been outraged by Hollywood's multimillion-dollar spending to produce supercolossal flummery, premiered his film at the Cannes Festival with the announcement that it had cost only...
...years in vaudeville never let a custard pie go unthrown and grew rich, together with Straight Man "Ole" Olsen (currently touring in Europe), by endlessly repeating their zany show, Hellzapoppin, a unique blend of slapstick and what O & J christened "gonk," which they defined as "hokum with raisins in it"; of a kidney ailment; in Las Vegas...