Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cried in horror, "Mikimus!" Drawing his revolver, the officer went forward on foot to investigate. At the entrance to the village he staggered back, as out of the depths of the equatorial forest, 2,000 miles from civilization, came shambling toward him the nightmare figure of a shaggy, gigantic Mickey Mouse...
Despite a suggestive title and a penny-dreadful type of introduction, promising a shocking glimpse of marital infidelity, the movie is still much closer to Victor Hugo's original Ruy Blas than to a Mickey Spillane epic. For one thing, the characters are far more interested in the seventeenth century ideal of glory than in the "passion" currently popular in drugstore circles. Alto, most of them are too busy intriguing against each other to get worked up over a love affair--even if it does involve the Queen of Spain...
...Home program, and the usually competent Arlene Francis seemed to lose all her accustomed aplomb out in the autumn air. Arlene spent most of her time clucking maternally at some refugee children, miscalling the floats (she shocked uncounted millions of children by repeatedly identifying Mighty Mouse as Mickey Mouse) and caroling desperately to Commentator Hugh Downs: "Hugh! What have you got up there for us, Hugh? Oh, Hugh...
...Fantasyland, represented by animated cartoons of Disney's well-loved characters. Despite its fragmented character, the opening show had the true touch of Disney enchantment, ranging from a Portuguese bullfight, in which neither the beast nor its baiters got hurt, to a 20-minute study of Mickey Mouse, made up of excerpts from Mickey's first film, the 1927 Plane Crazy, through The Lonesome Ghosts to the magical antics of The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Not the least remarkable feature of this fine new show was the fact that even the commercials for Peter Pan peanut butter were...
After winning two minor celebrities as converts (Cowboy Singer Stuart Hamblen and Track Star Louis Zamperini), Graham made the front pages by converting one "Big Jim" Vaus, a wiretapper by trade who had recently done a job or two for Gangster Mickey Cohen. The story got even better when Graham invited Cohen to a small meeting of Hollywood personalities. "When I asked for people who wanted prayer to hold up their hands," he remembers, "Mickey lifted his hand, and I am sincerely convinced that he wanted...