Word: slinger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closeups, catching every glimmer of doubt, every stab of loneliness, until the whole film tingles with a heady sense of discovery. Finally, it sees through the girl's eyes that the hot-blooded mariner is actually a gentle, restless wanderer, then through his eyes that the acquiescent hash slinger is a woman made beautiful by extraordinary warmth and spontaneity...
Died. Lee Mortimer, 56, New York Mirror columnist who for years as second-slinger to Walter Winchell covered Manhattan like it was something under a rock, then broke into the nonbook world as co author (with the late Jack Lait) of such penny dreadfuls as New York Confidential, Washington Confidential, Chicago Confidential, and U.S.A. Confidential, all of which earned him more libel suits than fame; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...audiences might have arrived expecting a million laughs from the most celebrated buffoon ever to rise through U.S. television, they leave with a single, if surprised, reaction: inside the master jester, there is a masterful actor. Gleason, the storied comedian, egotist, golfer, and gourmand, mystic, hypnotist, boozer and bull slinger, is now emerging as a first-rank star of motion pictures...
...muddy section of Yale's Old Campus, the CRIME eleven defeated its Ell counterpart, 22 to 6, before a crowd of 30 NEWS substitutes and three members of the Yale Security Force. Mike ("The Slinger") Belknap led the CRIMSON in completing two touchdown passes and setting up another touchdown by having his weekend date recover a fumble on the NEWS' three-yard line...
...Joseph (Outcasts of Poker Flat) Newman obviously inspired his actors. Arthur O'Connell, as a coony old sergeant, gives the finest performance of his screen career. Actor Boone, in trying to evoke the warrior imago, at times seems less a man than a manner-like Paladin, the sixgun-slinger he plays on TV's Have Gun, Will Travel, he shoots every word from the lip. But at the same time, Boone sets up a strong magnetic pole that centers the whole story, and he reveals beneath the captain's military brusqueness a capacity to suffer, an intensity...