Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David Schine, on leave from Army duty in Alaska, and clad in well-tailored mufti, hopped off an airliner at New York's International Airport and was greeted by his erstwhile investigations sidekick, retired McCarthy Aide Roy Cohn, now a Manhattan lawyer. Reporters closed in on the two lads and tried to learn more about their reunion. But just before vanishing with Cohn into the night, Private Schine snapped: "I have stopped speaking to newspapermen...
...pair of Korean war buddies who have moved to Los Angeles for jobs, the show is produced by writers Ray Singer and Dick Chevillat at the Hal Roach studio. Bishop plays the handsome leading man, and O'Shea is cast as the dumb, good-natured, wolf-calling sidekick that Hollywood has decreed as standard equipment for every U.S. soldier-hero...
Gary was not thrown into show business on a sink-or-swim basis. His father's good friends and old employees, Bill Morrow and Murdo Mackenzie, are directing and writing the Gary Crosby Show; the announcer is veteran Ken Carpenter, a long time Bing sidekick, who remarked cheer fully that he was set for life "as long as I don't run out of Crosbys." Father Bing himself supplied a word of tactful advice ("Always be on time") and thoughtfully stayed away from the first recording session just in case he might make his son nervous...
...Wonderful Town," universally acclaimed as wonderful, has wonderful Rosalind Russell singing Leonard Bernstein's bumpy, original melodies. Edith Adams makes an attractive, on-time sidekick as Eileen...
...Happily, the picture spares moviegoers another movie version of the Brooklynite. Richard Widmark barks his way through the role of the tough sergeant, and a curious attempt is made to give him an extra dimension by having him quote from Edna St. Vincent Millay. Karl Maiden, as his easygoing sidekick, tries to soften Widmark's third-degree tactics in close-order drill and simulated combat...