Ever since Wallace Beery won the Best Actor Oscar in 1932 for playing a boozy palooka in The Champ, a throng of fight flicks have gained top acting nominations for two-fisted .
John White ("Con") Conway, 42, dramatic critic of Variety, famed Manhattan theatrical trade weekly, inventor of many Broadway colloquialisms ("clicked," "pushover," "palooka .
Navy, poked and punched by many a palooka, punched Penn, 60.
Letters to the editor for Aug. 9, 2013 Pennyworth was Joe Palooka's sidekick To the editor: Re: “Palooka’s Place”’ by Rebecca Bayens, published in the Times-Mail Monday. Humphrey Pennyworth was J ...
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William H Macy in CNN International I'm the luckiest palooka, but I did play a lot of misfits and losers, and I had just had a conversation with my agent that I don't want to play that role anymore,Macy said. "But then I read this script and I thought this is such a...
Bill France Jr in SI.com The champion doesn't have to win eight races and he doesn't have to win a race in a given year,France said. "But he's got to meet some kind of subjective test where the media is not writing that we've got some palooka that has won the...
Rick Reilly in Globe and Mail Gore went, as Rick Reilly wrote in Sports Illustrated, "from palooka to prince to palooka again."