Headlines to die for

Germany’s leading press agency chronicles our saga

MUGGS, MOGULS AND BIGWIGS
HIT BIG APPLE FOR BOFFO BASH

By Jack Kindred, Deutsche Press Agentur

New York – Sticks Nix Hick Pics, an eye-catching Variety banner headline over a story about how small-town audiences in the Depression era shunned movies set in rural locales is one of the most famous headlines in U.S. journalistic history.
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Variety at 100: Media reactions

Not for the first time, folks, Sime’s sheet was news!

THE FIRST MEDIA COVERAGE of the old Variety reunion was published in the New York Times on Aug. 15 in a three-column article written by Lia Miller, which included a photo of Sime, one of Syd and one of the front page of the first issue of weekly Variety.
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