Word: humoristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critics as being less a labor of love than one of hate. To counteract this general impression, Chaplin told a Foreign Press Association luncheon in London: "I love America even now . . . I made the film for laughter." Unfortunately, Chaplin seems to have forgotten that the most unhumorous thing a humorist can do is to lose his sense of humor...
...Once experiment-minded in summer, CBS contemplates only one new show: a live comedy-variety spot for young (29) Dick Van Dyke, an Orson Beanish kind of comic who earlier served on To Tell the Truth. Humorist Sam Levenson's quiz game Two for the Money will share Saturday's Jackie Gleason hour with filmed editions of old Jimmy Durante shows. The newest hillbilly darling, Jimmy Dean, will continue his weekday morning show and also move into CBS's "new talent spot" on Saturday night at 10:30-a bonus for having clobbered NBC's Today...
With this darkling confidence, readers are off on a voyage into the vast punumbra inside Humorist Thurber's head. Nothing is credible, yet all might have happened at any moment between waking and sleeping. Black and his beastly pirate crew land on the island of Ooroo ("It sounds like the eyes of a couple of ghosts leaning against an R," shudders Black) and proceed to knock the 0 out of everything. They smash in doors and cupboards, rip roofs off houses, dismantle towers, drain pools and ponds. But all they find are opals and moonstones, not the valuable...
...since there are always some people who want to get emotionally involved in their entertainment, and since producer Mike Todd obviously set out to please everybody, the picture even has a plot. Adapted by humorist S. J. Perelman from a novel by Jules Verne, the story relates the adventures of a very correct 19th century English gentleman who, on a wager, sets out to circle the globe in eighty days. So he packs up a couple of shirts and his valet and proceeds by train, sailing ship, balloon, elephant, windpropelled railroad car, and various other exotic means of transportation. Somewhere...
...newspaper, she munching sweets as they waited for the housemaid to bring breakfast and witness the incriminating scene. At least three breakfasts on three mornings were considered essential. Until 1857, only Parliament could grant a divorce, and did so at about the rate of two a year. In 1937 Humorist-Novelist A. P. Herbert got through a divorce bill which extended the grounds for divorce to include desertion and cruelty. There was a brief, un-English peak after the war when second thoughts on impulsive war marriages swelled the divorce rate to 60,000 a year. Since then, the rate...