Word: slick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sammy Davis, Jr. is a slick, quicksilver Sporting Life, and his renderings of "It Ain't Necessarily So" and "There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York" could not be topped. Pearl Bailey is on hand as Maria, and one only wishes that her part were fatter...
...Dodgers have men to match. Towering (6 ft. 6 in.. 205 Ibs.) Don Drysdale (13-6) is the ace of a slick young pitching staff, and Third Baseman Jim Gilliam (.318) always seems to be on base. But the biggest man of all in the Dodger infield is that old pro-and beloved Brook-lynite-First Baseman Gil Hodges, 35, who can still field like a vacuum cleaner and at .293 put the ball game away with his bat. Last week in the first game against the Giants, he slammed a two-run homer; in the second, he slapped...
Giving His All. The outfit that cooked up The Four Seasons' blend of slick spectacle and lofty cuisine is Restaurant Associates Inc., a fast-rising restaurant group that specializes in putting showmanship and science into the eating business. R.A. says it carried out close to three years of "depth research" in preparing The Four Seasons. President Jerome Brody, 36, and a squad of top executives swung through Europe, the Far East, Polynesia, dipping their manicured fingers into the pots of the world's better restaurants. Bagel-waisted Vice President Joseph Baum, 38, gave his all to the cause...
Barry Morse plays Tanner at Wellesley with all the elegant arts of a skilled high-comic actor. It is a brilliant, slick performance, full of gaiety and verve and a fast-talking grace reminiscent of Noel Coward. Mr. Morse is admirable as the quarry of the love-chase, the baffled and laughed-at talker, but there is more to the character than the excitable little man he gives us. The "Olympian majesty" specified by Shaw is missing; Tanner's magnificent brashness becomes mere cheek. Mr. Morse can lay down doctrine with considerable brio, but his John Tanner never seems committed...
...minutes, Anatomy is longer than the subject warrants, but the pace seldom slackens-thanks to the competence of Director Otto Preminger. The actors-particularly Stewart and Remick-handle themselves like the glossy professionals they are; but a number of important scenes are grandly swiped by that slick old (68) amateur, Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, who plays the judge almost as memorably as he played himself on TV during his historic fracas with the late Senator McCarthy...