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K. On Jul 5, 2012, at 7:48 AM, rodxmorgan wrote: > Depends if you are selling Movie Posters or peddling newspapers. > > > ... 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. > > ...although the movie-prop version renders it as "Stix nix hix pix!" in > Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), > > > > > --- On Wed, 7/4/12, Kirby McDaniel <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Kirby McDaniel <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MOPO] STIX NIX HIX PIX > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2012, 9:58 PM > > Almost correct: > > Wikpedia says the correct headline is > > STICKS NIX HIX PIX > > Sticks nix hick pix > > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia > Jump to: navigation, search > 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; according to the article, this assumption was > incorrect. > > According to Robert Landry of the Variety staff, the headline was written by > Lyn Bonner;[citation needed] 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. > > Contents > > 1 Fame > 2 Popular culture > 2.1 Similar headlines > 2.2 Parodies > 3 References > 4 External links > Fame > > The headline is one of a handful that have entered the lore of journalism, as > described in this essay[2] by longtime Associated Press reporter Hugh > Mulligan: > > “ Down the years, some of journalism’s most famous headlines have > brilliantly suggested what happened and have coaxed the reader to find out > more: > WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG [written for Variety by Claude Binyon] > FORD TO NEW YORK: DROP DEAD > HEADLESS TORSO IN TOPLESS BAR > HICKS NIX PIX IN STICKS > ” > Mulligan got three of the four headlines wrong, including the "Stix" > headline: 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". > > 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 > > Similar headlines > > In 2000 the New York Daily News used the headline "HICKS NIX KNICKS TIX" on > page 1 and "HICKS' KNICKS TIX TRICK on page 5. > The headline was echoed in a New York Times editorial[4] entitled "Hicks Nix > Blix Fix" in 2002 by William Safire about the Bush administration's rejection > of UN-backed inspections to ease nuclear tensions with North Korea. > Parodies > > A 1984 novel by David Burdett was titled Hix Nix Stix Pix. > In the Futurama episode "That's Lobstertainment!", the Daily Variety headline > reads "Fox Exex Bax Sex Pix, Flix Lax Crux Bux, Stox Sinx, Ax Prex". > In the Tiny Toon Adventures episode, "Thirteensomething" while Plucky reads > the newspaper (Varietoon, obviously a parody of Variety) one of the headlines > is "Hix Nix Stix Pix". > In The Simpsons episode "Colonel Homer", the Springfield Variety headline > reads "Hix in Stix Love Chix Lix". > An Animaniacs song about Variety magazine has a line that reads "'Hix Makes > Pix but the flick needs fix' means someone made a movie that bombed". > Sesame Street had a street sketch in the seventh-season opener in which a > Muppet news reporter displays a bunch of "EXTRA!" newspapers with headlines > based on the "Stix Nix Hix Pix" headline; "Locals Say Enough Snuff Stuff", > "Snuff Stuff Just Fluff", "Snuff Not Puff Says Bird In Huff". > A season 2 episode of the PBS kids' game show Where in the World is Carmen > Sandiego?, entitled "Crook Nicks Kid Pix", involves Top Grunge (one of > Carmen's henchmen) stealing a children's museum. > Jonathan Coe's 1997 novel The House of Sleep features the fictional Variety > headline, "Sick pic nixes Brit crit". > References > > ^ Besas, Peter. "Abel Green obituary". Simesite. Retrieved 2009-06-05. > ^ Mullian, Hugh. "Breaking Out from the Herd" (PDF). Allworth Press. Archived > from the original on 2006-03-13. > ^ This newsgroup posting cites Google counts taken in late 2005. > ^ Safire, William (2002-10-24). "Hicks Nix Blix Fix". The New York Times. > Retrieved 2009-07-30. > External links > > The article at Variety.com > 1935 exhibitor perspective 'Sticks' in memory > Online English-language course that describes it as "perhaps its (Variety's) > most famous headline of all time" > View page ratings > Rate this page > What's this? > Trustworthy > Objective > Complete > Well-written > I am highly knowledgeable about this topic (optional) > Categories: > Headlines > 1935 in the United States > Create account > Log in > Article > Talk > Read > Edit > View history > > Main page > Contents > Featured content > Current events > Random article > Donate to Wikipedia > Interaction > > Help > About Wikipedia > Community portal > Recent changes > Contact Wikipedia > Toolbox > > Print/export > > Languages > > Deutsch > This page was last modified on 21 June 2012 at 03:34. > Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; > additional terms may apply. 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