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...Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin. The basic idea is clever: Martin is cast as the loving, beloved adopted son of a family of black sharecroppers. He is dumb as cow-flop and hopeless at foot shufflin' and finger snappin', but he tries hard. When he is ready to go out into the big world and his black mother (Mabel King) tells him that he was adopted, he is horrified: "You mean I'm gonna stay this color...
When he is annoyed by being asked the same questions ("Who is your hero?" "What's your biggest thrill?" "Will you win 30 games?"), Blue tends to go into his shufflin', put-on routine: "It sholy is nice to have you fellas come an' talk to a po' boy lak me. Now some of you may not be aware of what sholy means. That's something we say down home. It's almost the same as surely." Hounded as he is, Blue is still very conscious of what he calls "Bogartin'." The way he tells it, "Bogartin' is when...
Died. Philip Douglas, 62, outstanding pitcher (1919-22) for the New York Giants, who was banned from organized baseball for life; of a stroke; in Sequatchie, Tenn. Towering (6 ft.-4 in.) "Shufflin' Phil" scrawled an offer to go fishing in the middle of 1922's hot pennant race if the St. Louis Cardinals would make it worth his while. "I don't want to see this guy [Giants Manager John McGraw] win the pennant . . ."he wrote Cardinal Outfielder Leslie Mann. "Send the goods to my house ... and I will go home on the next train." Douglas...
...steady job on the organ in Harlem's Lincoln Theater. He made Q.R.S. piano rolls, records with blues-singer Bessie Smith and Sarah Martin. The late Arnold Rothstein backed Waller's first show, Keep Shufflin'. On records Waller began to sing as well as play, and in his expressive mouth the inane words of a popular song often came in for very searching satirical treatment. In 1929, in collaboration with Guitarist Eddie Condon and a small but vital ensemble, he made one of the greatest jazz records of all time: The Minor Drag and Harlem Fuss...
...came out for the 13th round. "I got you, Joe," he had taunted. But the champ was not the champ for nothing. And The Kid was still a kid. Instead of continuing to jig & jab, Conn did just what he had been warned not to do: he sailed into shufflin' Joe, began swapping punches. This was what the cool-headed champ had been waiting for. Before the swaggering youngster knew what had struck him, he was staggering under a bombardments of rights & lefts. Two seconds before the bell, he was curled up on the canvas for a count...