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Word: stan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film adaptation of Hello, Dolly! matches Herman's contribution. Michael Crawford playing the young clerk, Cornelius Hackl, self-consciously recalls Stan Laurel. As Horace Vandergelder, the richest and meanest man in Yonkers, N.Y., Walter Matthau is doing Walter Matthau as he used to be in B pictures, moving through the production like a man with a strong distaste for all around him. As for the lead, Barbra Streisand oscillates between postures: now Mae West, now Lena Horne, now brassily elegant, now flying her Yiddishkeit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Echolalia | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...resemblance to persons living or dead is purely unmistakable. In appearance, Cockeye obviously recalls Ben Turpin, and Billy Bright subtly evokes Buster Keaton. In actuality, the melancholy story is closest to that of the late Stan Laurel. The bitterness of The Comic arises from an incident in 1963, two years before Laurel's death, when Van Dyke decided to mimic Stan in his TV series. "We wanted to pay him for the rights to use his character," recalls Reiner, then producer of the show. "And we found that the rights belonged to another human being. The rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Burned-Out Star | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Brown led all scorers with 22. center Floyd Lewis had 20 tallies on rebounds and short jump shots, and guard Stan Mark contributed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Basketball Team Overpowers Strong Boston University Squad, 95-71 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

With both teams continuing to substitute, the freshmen pulled within six points with three minutes left in the game on the strength of good shooting by guard Stan Mark. But the varsity held its lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Defeats Freshmen, 102-93 | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

...substitute guard. Hal Smith, led the freshmen with 14 points. Stan Mark, with eight tallies in the last four minutes, finished with 11, and James Brown, had ten, even though he only played 8 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Defeats Freshmen, 102-93 | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

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