Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAUREL AND HARDY'S LAUGHING 20'S. From one- and two-reel silent comedies made before 1930, Cinema Anthologist Robert Youngson distills the best drollery of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy...
Meanwhile, the mob was already split over who should succeed Silent Sam Giancana as head of Chicago's hoodlumhood. One night last week two groups of aspiring chieftains reportedly held simultaneous meetings. One was attended by such upstanding citizens as Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca, Tony ("Big Tuna") Accardo and Jackie ("The Lackey") Cerone. The other gathering was graced by Sam ("Teetz") Battaglia, Felix ("Milwaukee Phil") Alderisio and Fiori ("Fifi") Buccieri. The betting was that several of the syndicate's leading lights would soon resort to silence-one way or another...
LAUREL AND HARDY'S LAUGHING 20'S. From one- and two-reel silent comedies made before 1930, Cinema Anthologist Robert Youngson distills the best drollery of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and provides a welcome cure-all for atrophied funnybones...
Laurel and Hardy were virtually the only silent comedy stars to repeat their phenomenal success in talkies, probably because their miming spoke louder than words. Stan remained a model of amiable imbecility, impervious to thought. Ollie, a blob just a shade brighter, bumbled his way through every difficulty with ineffable grace, slowly building up vast reserves of despair, self-pity and frustration that only a long pained look into the camera could dispel...
...Department as "a bowl of jelly" and of Secretary of State Dean Rusk as a man who "seemed actually to prefer stale to fresh ways of saying things" are already well known. On page after page, he betrays his view of Rusk as a man who is almost always silent because he almost never has anything to say-and he suggests that Kennedy felt the same way. What did Rusk think of Italy's impending apertura a sinistra (opening to the left)? "He did not have, as far as I could find out, any views," writes Schlesinger. Of Berlin...