Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with an examination of the manners and morals (both terrible) of Southern California. The Climax play was based on Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, and starred Teresa Wright and Dick Powell who played the tough private eye as if he were trying the impossible task of parodying Mickey Spillane. Climax lost what little connection it had with reality when one of the corpses -unaware that the camera was still on him -slowly got up and crawled away...
...there ought to be a stiffer tariff on Scotch whimsey. The latest cinematic highball, High and Dry [TIME, Sept. 13], is every bit as charming as your excellent movie reviewer says it is, in fact, so relentlessly charming that about halfway through one longs for a refreshing draft of Mickey Spillane. But underneath all the charm, the picture is a perfect allegory of America's fate in Europe...
...filmdom's masterminds charitably make room for a nice, big torture scene" in color . . . After all, the young punks share in our 3% annual rise in productivity and have more cars, more money, more switchknives, and more idle time to read and re-enact the immortal works of Mickey Spillane...
Nehru Is the Culprit. The U.S. is active, too. Mickey Spillane's paperback epics can be bought in most bookstores. Copies of Living America, a USIS house organ with "beautiful illustrations ... of Americans participating in the good things of democratic life . . ." can be found in magazine racks of Indian aircraft and in university reading rooms, where one Indian in 20,000 can see them and be impressed. Redding's verdict: the Communists are winning the propaganda battle...
...filmed Mickey Rooney Show, Hollywood's final dramatic effort of the week, Mickey plays a stagestruck network page boy who has no chance in TV because "he's too small to be a wrestler and too big for a puppet." Mickey comes equipped with parents (Regis Toomey and Claire Carleton), a sweetheart three inches taller than he is (Carla Balenda) and a shady dramatic coach (Alan Mowbray). Fast-moving and full of bounce, the Mickey Rooney Show is aimed at the large audience that already likes Our Miss Brooks, I Married Joan, Topper and My Little Margie...