Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spot in a review you usually find a reference to the inimitable Bobby Clark who will save the whole shebang from a fate worse than bankruptcy. It grieves me to report that not only is the heretofore exuberant Mr. Clark imitable, but also that with a few exceptions he isn't worth imitating. For an old Clark afficionado those are hard words to utter, but there they are. The show, as it stands, is a clinger...
...Schmoe told you that somebody positively isn't an anti-semite because this somebody just said that "some of his best friends are Jews," you would probably think Joe was kidding. That happened to me last winter, only it wasn't Joe Schmoe, it was the president of the Free Enterprise Society, and he wasn't kidding. In other words, he meant it. That is to say, the fact that someone pronounced this anti-semite cliche of cliches was proof positive, to the President, that the chap was not an anti-semite. Or, to put it differently, the President...
With Moss Hart, it isn't the plot that counts, but the trimmings. Actually the story is concerned with a bright young man who has switched from trucks to typewriters and has written something new in the way of drama. This young man finds that the people who once seemed to be his devotees desert him when his play appears headed for failure. The playwright then loses his faith in his play as well as in his associates; but eventually he becomes as tough as the rest of them, and goes on with the job. The plot is slow...
...Isn't It Romantic? (Paramount) leans heavily, for inspiration, on such Broadway musicomedies as Oklahoma! and Carousel. The idea is to give the wholesome nostalgias of small-town U.S. life a coat of sophisticated varnish and, if possible, a new lungful of life. As it turns out, the picture smells more of varnish than of fresh...
...Loves of Carmen. It isn't art and it isn't Bizet, but it is Rita Hayworth in Technicolor (TIME, Sept...