Word: socko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Club, each for 24 persons. If the tab was high, the take was higher: $250,000 from the 480 guests. His financial backers are a wildly diverse group?thanks in part to Marion's standing in artistic-intellectual-entertainment circles. They have comprised a mint of Rockefellers, a socko of showbiz moguls from MCA's Jules Stein to the late Billy Rose, a tussle of tycoons that include Schenley's Lewis Rosenstiel and Seagram's Bronfman family, Macy's Jack Straus and Gimbel's Bernard Gimbel, Heinz Foods' H. J. Heinz II and Consolidated Foods' Nathan Cummings (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...formula farce, the show still seems artificial but the artifice somehow seems right-in a puppet show, who needs reality? Director Norman Jewison deserves three small cheers for the skillful manipulation of his principal puppets. Actor Randall, who as always looks like an unsolicited testimonial for psychoanalysis, achieves a socko series of belt-stretching belly laughs. Actor Hudson, who is sensitively cast as the half-dead hero, has seldom performed so inoffensively. And Actress Day, who at 40 should maybe stop trying to play Goldilocks, comes off as a cheerful, energetic and wildly overdecorated Mama Bear...
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. There is more to Sophia Loren than meets the eye, and Director Vittorio De Sica is the man who sees it. In Gold of Naples he showed the world that Sophia is socko as a liedown comic. In Two Women he gave the girl an accelerated course of Duse and don'ts that revealed enough talent for tragedy to win her a 1961 Oscar. And in this picture, a hairily hilarious but fundamentally innocent little comedy, De Sica displays Sophia as a warm and earthy and even rather subtle comedienne...
...SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING will probably run as long as its title. Going into its third year, it is still sharp, sassy and socko...
...stimulating environment in the world. Says Author-Critic (The Uses of Literacy) Richard Hoggart, 44: "England today is the most exciting country in all Europe. We're facing ourselves, beginning to be honest." Echoes David Frost, 24, a recent Cambridge graduate who presides over the BBC's socko satirical television show, That Was the Week That Was: "We can be the first nation in history that's both a great nation and a totally honest one. We can stop this morale-boosting nonsense and the terrible underestimation of people's intelligence. It's a great...