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...Stevenson rode to the Illinois State Fair, accompanied by a strapping cowboy actor firing two six-shooters into the air. He accepted a layer cake from a bakers' union and had his picture taken sipping a chocolate milk shake. Halfway through the milk shake, he handed it to a wide-eyed moppet, saying, "Here, you take this. You look undernourished...
Though the show has its own pseudo-scientific lingo and its own slang ("Shootin' rockets!" "What in the universe!"), Moser borrows from older art forms. "Like any cowboy hero, Buzz Corry is above sex," he explains. "He never kisses anything but the cold nose of his space ship." Moser has also put a taboo on cliff-hanging ("If we cause a single nightmare we have failed in our purpose")-Should a program end with Commander Corry facing a ray gun and certain death, the TV camera moves in to show a faint smile on the hero's face...
...Story of Will Rogers (Warner) is an unusual Hollywood film biography It is both faithful to the facts of Cowboy-Humorist Rogers' life, and has in Will Rogers Jr., playing the title role, almost a carbon copy of his famous father...
...answering a simple question about the clothing of American children visiting England with the British war-bride mothers. But he soon dived into deeper issues: "[American fashions for children are] terrible, aren't they? Little boys of seven . . . dressed in check suits, long trousers, and blue trilby hats . . . cowboy suits . . . bobby socks ... violent tartans ... Poor little brutes! Eating their cake too early, they will get through it too quickly . . . It is precisely this too-early maturity in ... manners, customs, habits and dress in Americans which makes them reach such an early, uninteresting and uniform middle age. What could...
Soviet moviemakers know their box office. Copenhagen audiences last week were seeing a Soviet-made horse opera that managed to combine cowboys with horse racing and a hearty helping of World War II anti-German propaganda, all wrapped lumpily into ten reels. The story of Kosakhest (Cossack Horse): A Cossack cowboy enters his horse in a race against a jockey who is after the cowboy's girl. But war begins and the jockey turns out to be a saboteur who escapes to Nazi lines after wounding the cowboy. The clever horse, who apparently can do everything but dance...