Talk:Sticks nix hick pix

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Contents 1 capitalization 2 Hicks 3 ending in X 4 Quote?

[edit] capitalization

Because it was the lead headline in the paper, "Sticks nix hick pix" was printed in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. All other Variety headlines of the time were printed in Initial Capital Letters (which remains the standard newspaper-headline style to this day).

This article title has it wrong both ways. I've changed the first reference to initial caps, because that's standard headline-ese, but am unsure whether to move to article to Sticks Nix Hick Pix, or change it to STICKS NIX HICK PIX, which is really ugly, or what. I've created both those as redirects to here, if for no other reason than to make sure that somebody else doesn't start the article anew there. - DavidWBrooks 13:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Just to complicate matters, both the above capitalization options exist as articles redirecting to here, except with the incorrect "hix" instead of "hick" ... and I had forgotten that I created one of those wrong articles, long ago! - DavidWBrooks 15:13, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hicks

The article only says that rural areas did not want to watch movies about farmers, and that upper-class urban stories did unexpectedly well. It does not say that the movies they didn't like "portrayed them as unsophisticated". Variety was probably just using "hick pics" jocularly, to mean rural-themed movies. --Dhartung | Talk 21:15, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ending in X

On the article page it says the headline is often misquoted with all the four words ending with X. Well, I was redirected by Wikipedia where it itself used four Xs!!! Would somebody please correct Wikipedia.

Not sure what you mean, anonymous unsigned poster. The incorrect spelling (all four X's) typed in as an article redirects to this, the correct spelling (just three X's). That's the way it's supposed to work. - DavidWBrooks 22:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quote?

What is up with the quote? It doesn't really add anything, other than a demonstration of misquoting the actual headline (and misquoting "Ford to city: drop dead" to boot). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.222.61.151 (talk) 18:23, 20 May 2008 (UTC)