Word: phoniest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsmen are the staff of a New York daily, and they are entombed in a show called. Saints and Sinners (NBC). To give it the benefit of the doubt, it is the worst television program since Playhouse go did Kay Thompson's Eloise. It is certainly the phoniest city-room drama since The Front Page. "I went out," says the reporter hero (Nick Adams), "and I dug for it, and the deeper I dug the dirtier it got." Even the cutting is tabloid cheap. A man puts a gun at another's temple and prepares to fire. Fadeout...
...life of Christ. King of Kings was produced in Spain by a marked-down DeMille named Samuel Bronston who built 396 sets, hired some 20,000 extras and a dozen slightly famous players, spent more than four months and $8,000.000. And what emerged? Incontestably the corniest, phoniest, ickiest and most monstrously vulgar of all the big Bible stories Hollywood has told in the last decade. Nevertheless, the subject is so dear to the hearts of millions that King of Kings will undoubtedly be filling Hollywood's collection plates for months to come. Scheduled for reserved-seat. pre-Christmas...