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Word: sidekick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easily the most impressive performer on the stage. The best humor comes from Stephen Cotler and Ron Lockhart as the fathers who are at moments uproarious and at moments moving. Also Larry Fineberg steals some scenes with his extremely funny portrayal of an old actor who, along with his sidekick (Joseph Ingelfinger), helps El Gallo stage the Rape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fantasticks | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...know? Simple. Bruno has a sidekick during two frantic days, a callow, sallow law student named Roberto, so shy he won't call for help when accidentally locked in a public bathroom. The Playboy asks the Law student, "Why not throw yourself into life," and the Law Student cleverly counters, "I worry where I'm going to fall." The Playboy mutters to us all, "You're right, I'm the fool." Clunk...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: The Easy Life | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

Ruth Caplan, the ingenue, and Joseph Morlan, the sidekick, started with the disadvantage of the two weakest parts in the script. Neither of them managed to conquer this initial problem. Morlan's ill-timed hamming told against him when compared to Martin, and Miss Caplan, who looked remarkably like Romney's Lady Hamilton in one scene, was generally ineffective...

Author: By Charles S. Whitman, | Title: Sweeney Todd | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

Born. To Dennis Day (real name: Eugene Patrick McNulty), 46, longtime Irish tenor sidekick of Comedian Jack Benny, and Peggy Almquist McNulty, 38, his wife of 15 years: their ninth child, sixth son; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 10, 1963 | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...Hero Jerry, a TV repairman whose knob is on the fritz, stands to inherit a billion dollars, but he doesn't know it. An unscrupulous attorney (Zachary Scott) and his sinister sidekick (Jack Weston) know it very well, and they decide to make worm food of Jerry before Jerry finds out. The sidekick tries to run him down with his big, black, shark-shaped limousine-Jerry falls in a manhole just in time. The sidekick tries to prang him with a high-powered rifle-Jerry is so jerky that the punk just can't hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Poor Fish | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

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