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Among members of my family, the word bath is pronounced "baff." It's not that we have some hereditary speech defect or obscure regional accent. It's because at one point or another, we all read Donald Barthelme's novel Snow White, a retelling of the classic fairy tale, and became obsessed with it. In Barthelme's version, the seven dwarfs say "baff" instead of "bath." I don't know why. But now we do too. (The dwarfs also sleep with Snow White and sell Chinese-themed baby food for a living. They still say "heigh-ho," though...
...quirky sense of humor, Cara would like nothing better than to move in with Margaret Mary for mutual care and companionship. With aloof hauteur, the widow indicates, as only Hepburn could, that Cara is non-U. Selfish, highhanded, unfeeling, Margaret Mary takes in a different roommate. Robin Bird (Regina Baff), a woman of about 30, is a Brooklyn sparrow with a broken wing. She has been wounded by her husband, who divorced her to turn homosexual. Robin brings out the possessive mother-tyrant in the widow, but in return Margaret Mary goads her into staking a personal claim on life...
ROAD MOVIE is a pitifully clumsy yarn about a couple of truckers (Robert Drivas, Barry Bostwick), the hooker they pick up for relaxation (Regina Baff), and the interstate agonies of owning a rig and trying to haul your freight to Chicago on time - before the gas crisis. Director Joseph Strick has made several other films (The Balcony, Ulysses), although it is not apparent here. Road Movie is a shambling hour and a half padded out with highway footage photographed from the truck's cab. The woman's character is the most interesting in the film, though there...
...gone to work as a stool pigeon for District Attorney Charles S. Whitman. He soon was engaged in German spy investigations under the name of William Johnson. As a side line he tried to get a man named Cohen a death sentence for murdering a chicken handler, Barnet Baff. But when an indictment against him for subornation of perjury in connection with the Cohen case was handed down, William Johnson disappeared. That...
...Elis as Brua and Gilkey turned it against them by a 5 to 4 tally. In the sabre, the Elis eked out a 5 to 4 win thanks to the nice swords play of Isaacs and Mims, who overshadowed the Crimson contingent of Wright, Alberts, and Baff...