Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world turns on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman this season, the eight-year-old Rev. Jimmy Joe Jeeter, boy evangelist, comes to a sorry end when a television set rigged up over his bathtub falls in and electrocutes him. "He died for the 6:30 news, Lord. For the sins of the 6:30 news," wails Mary's friend Loretta Haggers, who happened to be out of the room at the crucial moment, hunting for the reverend's rubber duck. Meanwhile, Loretta's oversexed husband Charlie-shot in the groin in a tussle with Jimmy...
...regarded as an incriminating dossier concerning the finances and sales of the Dassault conglomerate. Suspicions of blackmail were reinforced when police learned that the seemingly respectable accountant had recently become enmeshed in the French underworld. Around the time of the death of his wife, who drowned in a bathtub last March, De Vathaire took up with a nightclub hostess, the estranged wife of a man wanted by the Paris police. A friend of hers introduced the $60,000-a-year accountant to Jean Kay, a flamboyant adventurer best known for his aborted 1971 hijacking of a Pakistan Airlines plane supposedly...
McGuane gives his major actors only one effective scene when a vengeful Nicholson has Brando at his mercy in a bathtub and lets him go. But far from satisfying the audience, it leaves it wishing for more. McGuane's is an essentially adolescent sensibility, tough-talking but sentimental about how nasty death keeps intruding on his good ole boys. In the circumstances, one comes to admire Brando even more. Apparently, he was the only major participant in the project to see that it was a load of nonsense and that the only honorable course was to send...
Directors wearing puttees and waving bullhorns decorate Hollywood back-lots. The air reeks of bathtub gin. Model Ts cause traffic jams. At first it was simple evocations of the '20s (The Great Gatsby) and '30s (Chinatown). Now the trend is narcissistic...
...Manhattan in an IGA soup contest ("I collected the most labels"). One bite of the Big Apple made him want more. Within two years Paul was back, with $100 from his father and six songs tucked under his arm. He was dossing down in a friend's bathtub when ABC-Paramount Records gave him a contract. Diana was his first cut. It was an immediate hit and went on to become the second biggest grossing record in history, right after Bing Crosby's White Christmas...