词条 | Sticks Nix Hick Pix |
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STICKS NIX HICK PIX was a headline printed in Variety, a newspaper covering Hollywood and the entertainment industry, on July 17, 1935, over an article about the reaction of rural audiences to movies about rural life. It is one of the most famous headlines ever to appear in an American publication. Using a form of headlinese that the newspaper called "slanguage", "Sticks Nix Hick Pix" means that people in rural areas ("the sticks") reject ("nix") motion pictures ("pix") about rural life ("hicks"). The conventional wisdom of the movie industry was that themes of upper-class life would not be popular in the countryside; the article asserted that this was incorrect, noting two recent upper-class-oriented films that had done well in rural markets, The Barretts of Wimpole Street and The Scarlet Pimpernel. According to Robert Landry of the Variety staff, the headline was written by Lyn Bonner;{{Fact|date=December 2008}} however, Sime's Site (a site for people associated with Variety, named after the paper's founder) credits it to Abel Green.[1] Because it was the lead headline of the paper, it was printed in all capital letters. Standard style for other Variety headlines was initial capital letters on virtually all words. FameThe headline is one of a handful that have entered the lore of journalism, as described in the essay "Breaking Out from the Herd"[2] by longtime Associated Press reporter Hugh Mulligan: {{quote|Down the years, some of journalism’s most famous headlines have brilliantly suggested what happened and have coaxed the reader to find out more:
Mulligan got all four headlines wrong: The 1975 New York Daily News headline was actually "Ford to City: Drop Dead", the April 15, 1983 New York Post headline was "Headless Body in Topless Bar", and the October 30, 1929 Variety headline abbreviated STREET as ST. He is one of many who have misquoted the "Stix" headline over the years. It is often[3] misquoted with all four words ending in X. That misspelling appeared in the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy, in which George M. Cohan (played by James Cagney) explains the headline's meaning to several young people, who use it as the basis of an impromptu swing song. Popular culture{{refimprove|section|date=April 2017}}Similar headlines
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References1. ^{{cite web|first=Peter|last=Besas|url=http://www.simesite.net/abel.asp|title=Abel Green obituary|publisher=Simesite|date=|accessdate=2009-06-05|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905215551/http://www.simesite.net/abel.asp|archivedate=2008-09-05|df=}} 2. ^{{cite web|first=Hugh|last=Mullian|url=http://www.allworth.com/Samples/J_craft1.pdf|title=Breaking Out from the Herd|publisher=Allworth Press|format=PDF|archivedate=2006-03-13|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060313170523/http://www.allworth.com/Samples/J_craft1.pdf}} 3. ^This newsgroup posting cites Google counts taken in late 2005. 4. ^{{cite news|first=William|last=Safire|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E7D6153CF937A15753C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print|title=Hicks Nix Blix Fix|work=The New York Times|date=2002-10-24|accessdate=2009-07-30}} 5. ^{{cite news|first=Timothy|last=Egan|url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/hicks-nix-climate-fix/?ref=opinion|title=Hicks Nix Climate Fix|work=The New York Times|date=2013-03-07|accessdate=2013-03-07}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-llewellyn-burdett/hix-nix-stix-pix/ |title=HIX NIX STIX PIX – Kirkus Review |date=March 28, 1984 |work=Kirkus Reviews |accessdate=April 28, 2017}} External links
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