[PW] Movie with Hackneyed political expression: "Time for a Change"

[Bill Davis]

No, yours is the first response I've seen.   There was such a chorus of 
crickets to my post that I wondered if it had actually been posted, or if I 
had unwittingly committed a wombat faux pas.

I'm not sure that's the movie I'm thinking of, but I HAVE seen it many 
times, so it may well be.   I'll give it another look.  Thanks for your 
response.

Bill Davis



At 01:52 PM 1/20/2008, you wrote:

>I am not certain whether or not this query has been answered.
>I have just been watching "A Face in the Crowd" where such a scene occurs.
>This movie was, of course, Budd Schulberg and Elia Kazan from 1957.



>Sandra Gustafson
>Hutchinson, KS Public Library
>
>On Jan 3, 2008 4:41 PM, Bill Davis <wmadavis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I almost couldn't believe it when Rudy Giuliani reviveed a hackneyed old
> > phrase, saying of Hillary Clinton, that she "never met a payroll."    I
> > remembered an old movie where Henry Fonda used that  expression,
> > sarcastically -- I'm pretty sure it was THE BEST MAN.     The big buzzword
> > in reference to Barack Obama is "change," and I can't recall the name of
> > an even older movie that has a politico bemoaning how campaigns are run
> > 'these days,' with empty slogans like "Time for a Change."  It might 
> have been a
> > Preston Sturges movie, but I'm not sure.   Does anyone recognize this?
> >
> > Bill Davis