Word: shucksing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Lee stepped forward with a Will Rogers, aw-shucks shuffle. He grinned. It was a beautiful day, and the fans who had ridden him only several weeks earlier, when he couldn't seem to do anything right, were cheering him now. He had pitched two fine World Series games...
Collins is both substantive and witty. He is also generous with his praise and fairly candid about his dislikes. Neil Armstrong, who now teaches engineering at the University of Cincinnati, gets the highest marks for his "great balance and perspective." Frank Borman, now a vice president at Eastern Airlines, "makes...
Anthony Perkins and Beau Bridges agreeably aw-shucks their way along through life with her, but Producer Stephen Friedman's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel Leaving Cheyenne does not give the actors any emotionally revealing scenes to play. The script's dominant and ultimately boring mode...
MOST IMPRESSIVE DEBUT: Katharine Hepburn, who poignantly played her first TV role in The Glass Menagerie, and gave an even more varied and captivating performance as herself on the Dick Cavett Show (both ABC). Runner-up: Senator Sam Ervin as that perennial favorite, the shrewd, aw-shucks folk hero.
It doesn't work out that way, however. A certain amount of hot air is expended on the subject of political inquisitions in movieland, but Redford shucks his integrity without reference to political morality, and Streisand manages to shuck him over what seems a rather minor bit of marital...