Word: hopalong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...films to advertisers and independent TV stations. Says NBC Film Division's Director Ted Sisson: "A few big distributors are eventually going to control the industry." Some filmed shows, such as Victory at Sea, have higher ratings on their second runs than on their firsts. Others, e.g., Hopalong Cassidy, have been re-run as many as five times in the same city...
...over the Union of South Africa last week, housewives and bookworms were combing their dusty shelves for copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Hopalong Cassidy Comics. Reason: the lady and the cowboy, together with a rapidly mounting list of other books considered offensive by the government, were suddenly hotter than a chunk of radioactive cobalt. By a neat change of phrase in the law that formerly merely prohibited the sale of such books (penalty: $600), Interior Minister Theophilus Dönges had made it a crime even to possess them. Standing dusty and unused on a forgotten bookshelf...
...Epicmaker Cecil B. DeMille was reportedly considering William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd for the role of Moses in his forthcoming remake of The Ten Commandments. Cracked one columnist: "They went thataway, across...
...they telephoned, and Alf noticed that Clara's isolation led her to speak in dated British slang, with such expressions as "ripping" and "top-hole." Alf sent Clara dresses and a fur coat; he sent Nicky, the seven-year-old son he had never seen, a complete Hopalong Cassidy outfit with a "bristling armory of guns...
...only a moderately entertaining movie, but Sir Laurence, as the highwayman, seems to be having great fun holding up stagecoaches, leaping through windows and over walls, outwitting the jailers and, in general, carrying on like a cross between Hamlet and Hopalong Cassidy...