But the decision to focus on the arcane and marginally allegorical practices of the travelling motion-picture exhibitors rather than the more heroic and easily identifiable struggles of individual filmmakers against the broader industry--which characterises self-reflexive art movies such as the remarkable
Yackety Yack (Dave Jones, 1974) and the more conventional Newsfront, Hunt Angels (Alec Morgan, 2006) and Parer's War (Alister Grierson, 2014)--helps relegate, if unfairly, The Picture Show Man to the realm of bucolic nostalgia as well as the somewhat-nondescript mainstream of the overly art-directed 'AFC genre'.
The Picture Show Man
And watching a casket being pushed hurriedly to the open mouth of an empty plot while the Benny Hill Show theme music,
Yackety Sax, played in the background would give a certain closure to loved ones.
Clergy are having a Ball... and standing-up for Jesus
A photo of Wolfe as editor from the 1920
Yackety Yack is reproduced on page 32.
Notes
The bottom line was that he (Francis) was just trying to protect me, he didn't want me to get hurt, on and on,
yackety,
yackety.
A ticket to the circus
Most recently she was invited on to BBC Radio 3's The Verb to talk about, and read, her short play
Yackety Yak.
There's no smoke without fire; TWO worlds collide at Northern Stage this week - those of one of the world's most renowned playwrights, and that of a budding Newcastle wordsmith. Entertainment Editor GORDON BARR has details
Jane, who is in the room next door, hears Dynamite's
yackety yack until 2am with such consistent rhythm that it sends her to sleep, much like being on a train.
lifestyle: I OFFER SON SPINACH SOUP..YOU WOULD THINK IT WAS MADE OF DUNG WITH AN EARWAX CHASER. HE MAKES CHEESY TOAST INSTEAD; ALISON'S DIARY
(See "
Yackety Clack," May 2007, for more on enterprise chat.) Still, a sizable chunk of customer irritation with Web self-service is the product of two intertwined culprits: shoddy content and barriers to finding relevant information.
Help them help themselves: Web self-service means having your customer become her own customer service rep--but without making her resent doing what a real CSR can do in a fraction of the time
Best of all, though, are My Baby Left Me
Yackety Yak, which both feature some blistering guitar playing from a young Richie Blackmore before he found fame with Deep Purple.
The Mag: BEV BEVAN'S RETRO ROCK
His visit is plagued with inexplicable hostility from people he meets, beginning with a
yackety taxi driver (Frank van den Bops, playing for laughs).
The Arm of Jesus
And you rarely get a chance to hear a banjo on a jazz record in the 21st century, but could get a hefty slice of the old
yackety yack here.
Weekend: Culture: Karrin Allyson - In Blue (Concord)
It isn't interesting, like what you hear people saying in social life--yackety
yackety yack.
The way of seeing the story: an interview with Nicholas Mosley
"It's very much based on the social scene of the 50s, you see us in the jukebox diner, at the drivein, it's the girls versus the guys and
yackety yack, then we slow things down and it's all about the romance of the era.
Roxanne shrugs off agony for Toon; FORMER soap star Roxanne Pallett tells Entertainment Editor GORDON BARR why she will need all her courage when she steps on stage at the Theatre Royal next week
He was born in 1897, was a member of the class of 1920, and, according to the 1916
Yackety Yack, was a member of the Phi Society.
Chapel Hill recollections
Narrator is Paul McGann, who once sang with the Vienna Boys Choir, and whose showbiz career began with brothers Joe, Mark and Stephen in the 1983 musical
Yackety Yak.
STAR OF THE DAY; ANIMAL PEOPLE BBC1, 7.30pm
I decided I wanted to get back into acting, went to auditions and ended up doing a musical with my brothers called
Yackety Yack in 1982.
Mirror Works: If anyone can, the McGann clan can; Brothers work in harmony to achieve success as singers