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Word: nuttiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1963-1963
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Lewis as Kelp is a nimble simpleton. In Professor's nuttiest sight gag, somebody tosses him a pair of bar bells so ponderous that his arms get stretched to floor-length; that night in bed, when his sock-clad feet poke out of the bottom of the covers, a pair of hands reaches out alongside to give them a sleepy scratch. But Lewis as the alter-ego maniac Buddy Love is a maudlin letdown. Starlet Stevens best sums up the trouble: "Just being one person is more than enough for any human being to handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Half Laugh | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...Flubber. It's that man again-Neddie the Nut, that is. Remember him? In The Absent Minded Professor, the nuttiest science-fiction farce of recent years, Neddie (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber. In Professor the professor put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 22, 1963 | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

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