Word: sob
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...when I was twelve. It was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn sort of thing. It has lots of other highlights: it'll take in the trial-you know, this Daisy [De Boe] trial. Well, she was my secretary and she blackmailed me ... It won't be a sob story either . . . It'll be sort of a helpful story to girls who want to try for pictures and are very poor...
...Judy learned that her studio had suspended her again for repeated failure to show up for work, she locked herself in the bathroom, broke a water glass and scratched herself on the neck with the ragged edge. The Los Angeles Mirror headlined JUDY GARLAND CUTS THROAT-and all the sob sisters were off in full cry. Judy's husband, topnotch Director Vincente (The Clock) Minnelli, assured reporters that the incident was "too trivial" to discuss...
Manhattan's independent radio station WNEW, convinced that listeners want mostly music and news, has placarded buses and taxis with the promise that there are "no sob stories. . . no horror stories" on WNEW...
Before a news-and-music-loving listener had time to switch to another station, the announcer broke in with: "Who cares? This is WNEW, our happy station. No sob stories . . . just plenty of good music and the latest news 24 hours...
Caged (Warner) uses the sob-and-slap technique to tell the story of a pregnant 19-year-old girl (Eleanor Parker) who is sentenced to state prison because of her part (innocent, of course) in a gas station holdup. Entering her cell block with the diffidence of a rabbit stepping into a jungle, she has trouble adjusting to the hysterics, hair-pulling and suicide that are rampant among her fellow inmates. Like other movie prisons, this one is run by a "good" warden (Agnes Moorehead), who is hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love...