Today is the birthday of legendary show biz scribe Abel Green (1900-1973). Most of us know him because he cowrote the super-useful book Show Biz: From Vaude to Video with Joe Laurie Jr. And he is also well known for devising Variety‘s distinctive manner of slangy abbreviations in headlines, the most famous of which is “Sticks Nix Hick Pix” (i.e. […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:54PM on June 3, 2016