Word: skidoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skidoo. Otto Preminger's films have always been happiest when occupied with slightly soiled people with sordid problems in grubby environments. Needless to say, a confrontation between the Hippies and the Mafia offers Preminger a field day, and in my opinion, Skidoo is very great indeed. But Preminger is almost impossible to discuss. Most people hate his films--I think he's the only major American director working steadily today, and before I advance a tentative explanation or two, a couple of immediate points might be stated: Skidoo is hysterically funny, although many people will disagree...
...might have been easier if they'd given him a gold watch. But Canada's Liberal Party caucus, at a farewell party for retiring Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, 70, decided that what the P.M. and Wife Maryon, 64, really coveted was a couple of "skidoo outfits"-explorer-like garb suitable for skimming about on snowmobiles. It wasn't half as squirrelly as it sounded, as the Pearsons are avid skidooers. They donned the quilted jump suits on the spot, and Pearson said he intended to stay thus well insulated "from now on until April"-when...
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (Decca). It's the bee's knees, the cat's whiskers and 23-skidoo in the razzmatazz sound of the '20s, featuring Julie Andrews and Carol Channing from the sound track. Julie sweetens up the oldies (Poor Butterfly, Baby Face) and puts a high gloss on the show's new tunes (Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Tapioca), while Carol stamps her mark on Jazz Baby and Do It Again...