Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toothpaste. Steve Allen built a skit around Colgate's toothpaste ingredient, Gardol, and the Three Stooges built an act around Polaroid cameras. On NBC's Ford Startime fortnight ago, Dean Martin greeted Guest Frank Sinatra with a cheery "What's this you're wearing-My Sin?" And on a Crosby-Sinatra show, one of whose comedy skits involved the rest rooms of a filling station, the script specified Union...
Such plugs, even when they grow out of genuine comedy, bring payoffs (sometimes known as payola) of varying kinds; the My Sin plug reportedly was worth more than $1,000. Sometimes the payoff goes to the performers, but usually to writers or other employees of a show. Last week the Federal Communications Commission belatedly began to investigate TV's predilection for the plug. The announcement aroused widespread dismay. Moaned Actor Walter Slezak: "Everybody has become so suspicious that if you say 'Oh, my God!' on television, people think you're being paid off by the Holy...
...actors, and was given a meaty part in On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan, who had something of Cobb's history. Once again Lee Cobb was on top until a heart attack in 1955. Since then, he has regained his stature as Hollywood's No. 1 sin-ridden heavy. In I, Don Quixote, Actor Cobb, brilliantly backed by Eli Wallach and Colleen Dewhurst, put on a performance that was both poignant and terrifying but never out of control. His deeply felt Don Quixote seemed to overcome the world, as Philosopher Unamuno put it, "by giving [it] cause...
Soon the backslid heroine becomes a famous gypsy entertainer, travels through Europe from success to success and from sin (Gustavo Rojo) to sin (Dennis King). Crowd scene follows crowd scene: theaters, bullfights, battles. She finds her dragoon again at the side of the "Iron Duke" just before the Battle of Waterloo, which is thrown in for good measure. In the end, of course, she goes back to the convent, and at this point it becomes painfully apparent that the moviemakers intend, even at the risk of sacrilege, to have their unleavened bread and eat it too. But after more than...
Three fundamental modern attitudes toward sin, writes Father Ivo Cisar, are the pessimist's "I cannot avoid sin because it is inevitable," the optimist's "I cannot sin because sin is a myth," and the expert's "I can sin because sin is only weakness." The Christian's attitude: "I can avoid sin...