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...voice, and a talent for leaking torrents of tears on cue, Wheeler was a comic fixture ever since 1911 when he played in George M. Cohan's 45 Minutes from Broadway. He went on to the Ziegfeld Follies, then to Hollywood, where he teamed with the late Robert Woolsey in some 30 comedies...
...clever, too humorous, too well read, too (in the current all-purpose adjective of the liberal Establishment) "attractive." He is a solitary sniper, taking skillful shots at the Great Society, at peaceful coexisters, at the heirs and assigns of John F. Kennedy, at Lindsay-woolsey Republicans. Sometimes even an enemy smiles as Buckley hits the mark; sometimes his own rhetorical smoke screen obscures the target. Yet he never tires of the battle. Or is it sport...
...bowdlerized Ulysses would be unimaginable. The book, which first came to prominence in the '20s as one of those shocking things published in Paris, grew into a legend, even for people who never read it, when its U.S. publication was sanctioned in 1933 by Judge John M. Woolsey's celebrated decision: "Whilst in many places the effect is emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac." The judgment has become the consensus. Though the script omits none of the common obscenities and few of the scabrous episodes that made the book notorious, it had no trouble getting...
...four-letter words and some swinging sex scenes, and had been barred from the U.S. After talking with Joyce, Cerf brought back a copy, which was promptly seized at customs. With Attorney Morris Ernst, Cerf took the Ulysses case to court. The now famous decision by Judge John M. Woolsey not only gave Cerf-and Joyce -an impressive victory, but it landed a staggering blow against censorship...
...BRAD WOOLSEY...