Word: joey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio & TV). For the light heavyweight championship: Archie Moore v. Joey Maxim...
Aware of the pitfalls of this essentially episodic plot, the directors have skillfully developed a pervasive feeling of loneliness in Joey after the allure of the Midway wears off. It is a loneliness imposed by the preoccupied bathers on Coney Island's beach and the silhouetted couple who kiss beneath the boardwalk. Only a pony-ride attendant provides any understanding, and partly because of this new friendship and partly because of a fetish for horses, Joey becomes a familiar figure around the concession. It is this attendant who aids Joey's brother in finding the boy and returning...
...they won the governorship: "Public disgust" over the scandals that had touched the New Jersey G.O.P. The last straw, they thought, was Republican Candidate Troast's admission that he had asked New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey Fay. Winner Meyner (rhymes with signer) disagreed heartily with the interpretation that got him headlines across the nation. He thought he had won on local issues, didn't think his victory was any reflection on the Eisenhower Administration...
...moment of the binge comes when Joey walks into a cage, picks up a bat, starts swinging at baseballs spit out at him by a machine. Totally unconscious of the watching camera. Joey lashes out for dear life in a display of innocent animal vitality that creates one of the funniest, most beautiful passages ever to cross a screen...
...film, Writers-Directors-Producers Ray Ashley, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin have shown a high type of that negative good taste which knows what to exclude. At only one or two points do they slip into intellectualized sentimentality. For the most part, the camera modestly keeps its eye on Joey, and. except for a few embarrassing attempts to set him off in pathetic or tragic frames, looks at him calmly, with restraint and without cuteness. At the 1953 Film Festival in Venice, the picture won the Silver Lion, one of the six top awards...