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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Bing Crosby</title>
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		<title>The Amazing ROAD Series III</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Taylor Shayne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bing Crosby]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dorothy Lamour]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melvin Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman Panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Road to Bali]]></category>
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Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope in Road to Morocco

The Amazing ROAD Series: Part II
 Despite all the on-screen craziness, in one of the ironies only Hollywood can produce Road to Morocco was, of all things, nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay (for Frank Butler and Don Hartman).
 You wouldn&#8217;t think they could &#8212; or would have dared &#8212; to push the envelope any further, but they did. It had been nearly four years between &#34;Roads,&#34; but the public had not begun to tire of the franchise. 
Released in 1946, Road to Utopia is the series&#8217; only period piece. Set in turn-of-the-20th-century Klondike, the comedy is filled with Hollywood inside jokes, talking animals, and ad-libs like none before or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Amazing ROAD Series II: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Taylor Shayne</dc:creator>
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Justifiably smelling a potential goldmine, the following year Paramount released Road to Zanzibar, with Schertzinger once again assigned as director. This time around, slight signs of the series&#8217; famous anarchy began to show. 
A send-up of jungle safari pictures, Road to Zanzibar features Hope and Crosby straining to get off the chain. The &#34;we know this is a movie and so do you or you wouldn&#8217;t be sitting in the audience&#34; attitude began to furtively raise its head. Ad-libbing while the cameras were rolling became frequent. (It has been said that many of these &#34;ad-libs&#34; were carefully scripted into the margins of Hope and Crosby&#8217;s individual shooting scripts by their radio writers. The fun was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Amazing ROAD Series: Pop Culture for the Sake of Pop Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Taylor Shayne</dc:creator>
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Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby

I&#8217;ve made no secret of the fact that my Mike Taylor/Tony Solantro novels are very much influenced by the movies. The classic films of the &#8217;30s and &#8217;40s, mostly. That said, no other films influenced the style of my book series more than the Road comedies starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and the girl forever associated with the sarong, Dorothy Lamour.
 These things were an industry phenomena, not only because they raked in the bucks like no previous musical-comedy series, but for the very nature of what they were &#8212; &#8217;40s pop culture for the sake of being &#8217;40s pop culture, quite unashamedly not pretending to be anything else. A reviewer once likened Hope and [...]]]></description>
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