Word: sy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outrageous fortune, but just before his death he experienced a transfiguration in which the heroic drunk and the dissolving genius were transformed and redeemed in a last great love. The notion is so silly that not even the moviemakers could convince themselves it was true. Scarcely a line in Sy (The Big Country) Bartlett's script rings true, and some of them are almost ridiculously false. ("How did a girl as pretty as you get to be the biggest witch in Hollywood?" a famous actress shrieks at Sheilah. "Only the second biggest," Sheilah purrs back, looking...
...Sy Oliver Backstage (Dot LP), Singer-Arranger Oliver converses on Whatever Lola Wants, Seventy-Six Trombones, Grant Avenue, with the air of a man rocking a hammock. The familiar exercises have rarely had more infectious grace...
...Story of the Blues (Delia Reese with Sy Oliver and his orchestra; Jubilee). Songstress Reese is the victim of a saccharine script of interpolated commentary ("You're gonna hear the truth, 'cause that's all the blues is"). But when she is allowed to sing, as in Empty Bed Blues, she belts out some familiar and gutty reflections: "Let me warn you/If you've gotcha some good lovin'/Don't be a fool and go and spread the news...
Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), strongly seconded by Scriptwriter James R. Webb and Producer Sy Bartlett, seems determined to proclaim the dignity of the individual at the moment, in the heat of battle, when it seems to matter least. Like Lincoln at Gettysburg, Milestone declines to insult the dead with his approval. Like Analyst Marshall, he is satisfied to report simply and brutally: "The American character continues to meet the test of great events...
...from the treetops into his 32nd movie. Since the other 31 were all financial successes-a combined total gross of more than $500 million and a total audience of 2 billion people-the new Tarzan's Fight for Life showed the sort of promise most appreciated by Cinemogul Sy Weintraub, new head of Sol Lesser Productions, owner...