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Word: wildered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie has been widely hailed as some sort of beautiful moral statement from a reformed cynic. Don't believe it. Wilder's cynicism--really his acceptance of the truth--is very much in evidence in The Fortune Cookie; it makes his moralism palatable...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: The Fortune Cookie | 12/12/1966 | See Source »

...Three, Irma La Douce, and Kiss Me, Stupid--the man's last three pictures--were characterized not so much by cynicism as by excess. In all things. Kiss Me, Stupid, unquestionably Wilder's worst, was so overplayed, overwritten and overdirected that it seemed fair to call it his Armageddon. But with the benefit of hindsight, one can see that beneath the roughage Wilder has been brewing a new style of comedy. And the brew has come to boil with The Fortune Cookie...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: The Fortune Cookie | 12/12/1966 | See Source »

...FORTUNE COOKIE. Only Director Billy Wilder would have the chutzpah to choose a money-grubbing heel for his hero, and only Walter Matthau could make the heel lovable. As Shyster "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich, Matthau gets nothing but laughs as he prods Jack Lemmon into a $1,000,000 insurance swindle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 9, 1966 | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...clear that TV audiences will not be allowed to breathe easy again until the whole Pepsi generation is on the gargle. And as the competitive scramble gets wilder, Old Standby Listerine is forging ahead by hiring famous names for the sell. One commercial shows Golfer Sam Snead passing the word to a young pro whose lady students won't let him get closer than an iron shot. Another stars Insurance Man and ex-Pro Footballer Y. A. Tittle propounding the disadvantages of you know what to a discouraged salesman. Does that mean that Tittle had learned a thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Breathes There a Mouth | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...FORTUNE COOKIE. Only Director Billy Wilder would have the chutzpah to choose an obnoxious, money-grubbing heel for his hero, and only Walter Matthau could make the heel lovable. As Shyster "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich, Matthau gets nothing but laughs as he prods Jack Lemmon into attempting a $1,000,000 insurance swindle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 2, 1966 | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

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