Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike Sunset Boulevard, its pale counterpart stirs no emotion and avoids any commentary on the manners & morals of Hollywood, past or present. But it courts some unanticipated resentment and unwitting pathos in the exploitation of the faded oldtimers whom it uses as trophy-like props to dress up a few...
While the fast jets flew top cover, to ward off enemy air interference, the F-80s attacked the Sinuiju ack-ack positions and put most of them out of business. (The Americans could do nothing, however, about flak from across the river.) With bombs, rockets, machine guns and napalm, the...
The result is that "A Doctor in Spite of Himself" is funny in spite of itself. The cast doffs its wigs as readily as its hats; it flings props gleefully at the audience. A costumed prompter obligingly steps on stage when called. In this play there are several opportunities for...
Ed Thorgersen and the News (weekdays 7:35 p.m., Du Mont) brings a veteran newsreel announcer to network TV but can't make him comfortable. Backed by the standard props of a clattering teletype machine, a Korean wall map and the usual succession of still photographs, Thorgersen nervously shuffles...
Lloyd Nolan plays the farmer with a gay abandon that makes one wonder whether he's taking the "Courtin' Time" seriously. At any rate, he does the best job with his part, which is, of course, the best in the show. He kicks and tosses the hand props around, slides...