Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series called Hazel, based on the Saturday Evening Post's cartoon maid. She place-kicks footballs and tweaks the ears of her boss's clients. The Joey Bishop Show (NBC) presents its deadpan comic star as a small-time flack who is not as slick or tricky as the world around him. But the whole show is a little too cold and clanny...
Finally, the acting is superb, but it is mechanically superb. Vittorio de Sica and the rest of the cast have the exact gesture and the exact expression for every occasion, but for the most part they are more slick than moving...
...show, of course, is slick, exciting, professional in every detail-trust coony old Kazan for that every time. Actress Wood is quietly adroit and appealing. And Actor Beatty, who at 24 is playing his first screen part of any account, should make the big time on the first bounce. In the matter of talent, Sister Shirley MacLaine can give him cards and spades, but he has a startling resemblance to the late James Dean, and he has that certain something Hollywood calls star quality...
...Honeymoon Machine. It is really the Hollywood machine, in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out the slick, quick, funny film for which it was designed-in this case, about three young people who use a computer to assault the casino in Venice...
...Slick halfback Emmanuel Boye is limping badly from a charley horse suffered Wednesday. Halfback Tony Davies and right outside Ebenezer Klufio will start, but both will be slowed by the same problem. On the left wing Mike Kramer is nursing a painful ankle injury which makes him an uncertain starter...