Word: irma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Around Irma and Sam-and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders-Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittel-holzer...
...Rahabaat. The natives have all the sins of the senses, but no sense of sm. They worship Rahabaat, a god who lives in the local volcano, with frank fertility rites. When Sam preaches his Vermont fundamentalism at the men, they giggle and slip away into the underbrush When Irma tries to clothe the women in sacklike dresses of her own design, they cut holes in the tops to bare their breasts...
...dangers of a great city, like those of the jungle, often leave little time for thought. When smoke boiled into her 1½-room Brooklyn flat one morning last week, Mrs. Irma Randall did not hesitate. A kerosene stove had tipped over downstairs and flame was roaring up the stairway in solid sheets. After one look, she ran to the window...
Written by Radio Scripter Cy (My Friend Irma) Howard, That's My Boy reaches its comedy high in the opening slapstick sequences between Mayehoff and Lewis, then runs steadily downhill through a thicket of Freudian ABCs and the labored plot complications that lead to Jerry's coming through in the big game...
...Hollywood, where he produces his My Friend Irma (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS) as well as Luigi, the new, extraverted Howard wears tasseled shoes, owns a pedigreed Airedale and lives in a penthouse. He drives a Cadillac convertible with the top down, even though it's bad for his sinus, smokes a pipe though he prefers cigarettes, goes to Palm Springs for his sun tan though he would rather go to San Francisco, stay indoors and read. During rehearsals he regularly throws calculated tantrums, thumps the table, bites his necktie and otherwise acts as an uninhibited genius is expected...