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...cloak & dagger to cinematic tongue in cheek. A Woman of Sin is the title of a trashy novel which is turned into an Academy Award-contending movie without the studio's discovering until too late that the author of this "great story of animal love" is a precocious, pixyish nine-year-old girl. As the beribboned, towheaded authoress, Jenny Hecht takes smoothly to her father's direction. Also participating in this fancifully frothy lampoon of Hollywood: Alan Reed as a porcine movie mogul, Eddie Albert as a double-talking agent, and Tracey Roberts as his sexy secretary...
Back in the dark, drums were softly brushed. Nellie struck a big fat chord. Underneath the piano, her gilded sandal began to slap the floor. And with a pixyish glance up into the smoke-filled spotlight, Nellie was on her way. From behind a shiny gold tooth came a big voice with dust in it-singing Hurry On Down, a husky tune Nellie herself wrote. First, her piano accompanied her with knotty background chords while she sang; on a second chorus, she accompanied the piano (which she plays in a style reminiscent of the musician she most admires, Duke Ellington...
Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). A summer sub for Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen, the pixyish blind pianist features his musical satires and spontaneous improvisations...
...complex issue by reducing it to a one-sided dimension in a few bold and simple strokes. He cannot draw likenesses well, so he almost never caricatures specific politicoes. (Though Fitz is in the forefront of U.S. political cartoonists, he is leagues behind the London Evening Standard's pixyish little New Zealander, David Low.) Fitz poured out his feelings about Prohibition (he likes liquor as much as he likes crap games) with an angry drawing of the Statue of Liberty taking a nosedive into the Atlantic. He illustrated the current housing shortage by drawing a dilapidated auto with...
Ernest Taylor Pyle, better known to millions as Ernie, is an inconspicuous, frail, 110-lb. man of 42, homely and quiet-mannered. He looks exactly as if he came smack off an Indiana farm - which he did, some two decades ago. This week this pixyish little man, America's most widely read war correspondent, won one of the National Headliners Club's annual awards for newspaper, radio and photographic excellence. Pyle's award (one of twelve) was for "best foreign feature" reporting...