Word: prat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Like It Hot. The falls are strictly prat as Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis dress up like girls; luckily enough, so does Marilyn Monroe...
...Colonel (Columbia) clothes Danny Kaye, hailed as "the world's greatest clown" by his pressagents and some critics not on the payroll, in a seedy business suit and black Homburg, and tints his hair middle-aged grey. Not a prat in the whole picture falls, and not one double-talked song or double-sung talk issues from the Silly Putty that is Kaye's usual movie face. The result of this hold-down of his celebrated talents is the most appealing and one of the funniest films Danny Kaye has ever made...
Even in Hollywood's Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, all falls are not prat. Last week doorknob-bald Cinemidol Yul Brynner looked more dashed than dashing after he tried some Cossack-style horsemanship for MGM's The Brothers Karamazov, swooped too low, fractured a vertebra. And Cinemactress Rita Hayworth kicked up her heels during the Pal Joey shooting, got sent to the showers with a gimpy tendon...
...resent what he'd done and walk out. If I was broke, I'd wait until payday and then resent." Little resented his way from Cleveland to Chicago, Paris, Wichita and Oklahoma City. Along the way, he stored up inspiration for a song called Flat on My Prat in Pratt, Kansas. In 1939, Scripps-Howard transferred him to the Houston Press. Overnight Carl Victor Little became a fanatic Texan, because "there's no one more zealous than a convert...