Word: slickness
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...Slick Airways, largest U.S. air-freight line, has been in trouble ever since the end of the Korean war cut military freight orders and new civilian business failed to fill the gap (TIME, Oct. 4). Last week two optimistic outsiders who thought they could cure Slick's ailments took over the airline's management. In as new board chairman and top manager went Delos Wilson Rentzel, 45, a former CAA administrator, CAB chairman and Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, who is now president of two Oklahoma City truck lines. In as director and executive committee member went...
...three principals-Holliday, Lemmon and Carson-have spent so much of their acting careers in the straitjacket of formula farce that they wear it like high-fashion undies. Carson is a very slick comedian; his expression, as he muses on the possibilities of a round bed, could hardly have been improved on by W. C. Fields. Holliday and Lemmon, after only two pictures together, must be acknowledged as the smoothest new comedy team in show business. A nice bit: Holliday, slopping together an amateur Martini for Carson, says anxiously, "I probably bruised the gin." Carson looks. "Not a mark...
With Jonson's material, Harry Bauer, Louis Jouvet and a compliment of minor, but not lesser, actors create one of the funniest pictures before the modern era of slick underplaying. As Volpone, Bauer mugs and minces, as funny when he is playing dead as he is doing setting-up exercise of languid slapstick. His voice and his face alternate as the best things in the picture...
...strong points (named Len Oniskey) and weaknesses. The scouting reports and Marsh's exceptionally fine play-calling allowed the Crimson to exploit the weaknesses to the fullest. One can only wonder why the Big Red, with a very slick passer in Bill De Graaf, and with no openings through the middle, did not pass more...
...dreams than a highly promising nightmare. If, as he professes, he cares chiefly about acting as an art, there will hardly be enough opportunity in commercial Hollywood to keep him there much longer. Désirée, for instance, which will be released next month, is another big slick costume historical with no artistic nonsense about it. Producer Darryl Zanuck claims that Brando turns in one of his greatest performances as Napoleon, but Marlon modestly doubts it. "Most of the time," he says. "I just let the make-up play the part." Marlon's next role, Sky Masterson...