Word: chumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dope or a dumbski or a quisby or a mullethead, that won't be your cue to poke his snoot or even yell for the cops. Instead . . . you should square off and announce with dignity and eloquence that your antagonist is, forsooth, a beanhead, a booby, a chump, a dingbat, a flumadiddy, a filbert, a peanutbrain, a rednecked slob, a rumdum, a stupe, a tinpot...
...from Brooklyn (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) is an elaborate musical retake of Harold Lloyd's old chump-to-champ hit, The Milky Way (1936), starring ebullient Danny Kaye as a meek milkman. At picture's start, Danny's nag passes out between the shafts. Danny, who has to pull Sam Goldwyn's rather cumbrous vehicle practically unaided, also works like a horse. He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling...
...perky London barber who wins ?8,500 in a sweepstakes, decides to give his money to the poor, begins by bringing home a streetwalker and a thief. From there on the cynic and ironist in Maugham have a field day. Sheppey, his family feels sure, must be off his chump. The harlot and the thief, bored stiff by the good life, scamper back to the bad one. For a final joker, Maugham shows that the exemplary Sheppey really is sick: he has been having visions of a strange woman, who turns out to be Death and comes...
Curt, concise, clear summary of election results: Chump met Champ...
...apologia to scores of young hopefuls whom Hollywood calls west for screen tests each year only to send most of them home again. But Hollywood gets so interested in itself it forgets to apologize. More exciting to most cinemaddicts than the plot about the waitress (Linda Darnell) and the chump football hero (John Payne) who click before the cameras will be the game of identifying the Hollywood counterparts of the wicked casting director (Donald Meek), the actor who has superannuated into a talent scout (Roland Young). In the headstrong, somewhat brassy producer (William Gargan), who can't be separated...