Word: lowdownness
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...Fields, who also wrote the script, have stacked them up with impressive skill. David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor, it develops, are a big-city couple in the five-figure set who are celebrating their 13th anniversary. All goes well until Husband Niven gives his in-laws the likkered-up lowdown on what used to happen in that little old hotel before they were married. When the smoke clears, wife is locked in her bedroom, husband is battering down the door, and daughter is standing bare-kneed and pigtailed before a youth forum, telling the TV audience all about her parents...
...Diane Baker), a wide-eyed kid from Colorado, gives her heart and other personal effects to a lowdown uptown type (Robert Evans) who promises to marry her. But on her wedding day, bridal bouquet in hand, she discovers that he is not driving her to the church but to the abortionist...
...Paris. New York Herald Tribune Chitchatter Art Buchwald bumped into matriarchal Cosmetician Helena Rubinstein, got the lowdown on Soviet ladies who attended the recent U.S. exhibition in Moscow, where Polish-born Mme. Rubinstein, eightyish, was plugging her beauty aids. Said she: "They said our American models were zombies. Russian women take pride in being heavy and muscular. Perhaps the men like them that...
...Drake), a Bad Bad Guy with a slow sneer, a fast draw, and plenty of sneaking dry-gulchers on his payroll. Unfortunately, Hero No. 1 refuses to take the job without his sidekick. Villain No. 2 (Quinn), a G.B.G. who turns out to be a B.B.G.-the sort of lowdown skunk that makes his girl friend keep him. So the scriptwriter rings in Hero No. 2 (Widmark), a G.B.G. who develops into a G.G.G. and goes after the bad guys like a blackbird picking ticks off a cow. In the end, with the villains all gone, the heroes have nothing...
With its scarifyingly freakish weather, eerie sounds and collapsing houses, Cock-a-Doodle Dandy becomes at times a farcical free-for-all, as at other times it blares a propagandist freedom-for-no-one. Much of the writing, whether wrathful, lyrical or lowdown, has the true O'Casey tang. And despite symbols that are more like stencils and incidents too much like one another, Cock-a-Doodle Dandy has its amusing scenes and its fiery ones. Unhappily, in a quite un-Gaelic and ponderous production, there emerges nothing of the robustly comic playwright; the horseplay is elephantine, the darts...