Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Preview steadied down into a sense-making 30 minutes, with the emphasis switched from news to guest stars. Last week, Preview took an editorial look at the phrasemaking of Winston Churchill. Then it turned quickly to such eye-catching items as the Katherine Dunham dancers, Singer Eugenie Baird, Cinemactor Kirk Douglas. It was a crisp, entertaining, fast-paced show, and its climbing Hooperating put it right up in the first ten. But it was no longer a news-reporting "magazine of the air." More & more, McCrary's Preview was beginning to look like that old TV standby-vaudeville...
...hard-bitten short story by the late Ring Lardner, it is a brilliant example of the kind of punch a mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece of humanity as Hollywood has ever treated at length...
...inhuman monster nor a whining victim of circumstances. It simply focuses a hard glare on his unreflective brutality, his arrogance and his bursts of self-interested decency. Much of its punch comes from the sensitive performances of Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart. Its final wallop it owes to Kirk Douglas, who fills out every corner of Kelly's unattractive pug with bulging assurance and conviction...
Champion proved to be a clean knockout for practically everybody connected with it. To get ready for his remarkable fistic performance, Actor Kirk Douglas, 32, trained for a month and a half, six days a week, under the knowing eye of "Mushy" Callahan, onetime world's junior welterweight champion. Until then, the nearest Douglas had ever come to boxing was skipping rope at St. Lawrence University in preparation for a tournament in which he became intercollegiate wrestling champion of the Eastern Division (1938-39)* By the time Mushy finished with him, Douglas was in such good ring training that...
...Frances Gaither's novel as its March selection, can reasonably expect that thousands of readers will plug right along until they find out whether the yellow girl gets off or not. Before they get through, however, a good many who order this one will understand the words of Kirk's plain-spoken sister-in-law: "There ain't a mite of use of dodging pain. [God will] hand you the cup, and then you got to dreen...