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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; however, Sime's Site (a site for people associated with ''Variety'', named after the paper's founder) credits it to Abel Green. 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. ==Fame== The headline is one of a handful that have entered the lore of journalism, as described in the essay "Breaking Out from the Herd" by longtime Associated Press reporter Hugh Mulligan: 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〔(This newsgroup posting ) cites Google counts taken in late 2005.〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sticks nix hick pix」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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