Word: smasheroo
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...response of one home-town girl back from Italy: "Just looking at that building makes me proud." And as for incumbent Mayor Philip Givens, he could barely contain his pride. "It's unusual, unique, daring, bold," he declared. "It typifies the spirit of Toronto. It's a smasheroo...
Died. Sam Stept, 67, composer of such Tin Panalities as Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone and I'II Always Be in Love with You, but best remembered for his World War II smasheroo, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...
...California pulse-feelers debated how much of The Robe's success could be credited to CinemaScope and how much to the lavish production itself and its smasheroo promotion campaign. A few suspected its triumph might be due to the simple fact that with all its spectacular slickness, The Robe was based on a great theme (Christ's passion) written by a popular storyteller (the late Lloyd C. Douglas). As Samuel Goldwyn remarked: "In any consideration of new dimensions for motion pictures, the fact still remains that the most important dimension is that of the story...
Last fall Shanghai's Kun Lun studios put one of their top director-writers, Sun Yu, to work on a script about the persistent peasant. Early this year, The Life of Wu Hsun unfolded on movie screens across the land. The film was a smasheroo. Newspapers and magazines turned handsprings to praise it. Communist writers acclaimed Wu as a "great new revolutionary hero." Author-Director Sun was sitting pretty-or thought...