Word: beds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most people complain about the paper work only if they don't get a deer," says Frank Fennesz, 19, of Union City, as he hefts 113 Ibs. of venison-to-be back into the bed of his pickup. Fennesz's only complaint is the rainy weather, not be cause he minds getting wet but because rain turns dry, rustling leaves into a soundless carpet of mush. "If you don't see the deer, you can't hear them in weather like this." Chatting with one an other as they stand around in the glare of headlights...
...next day the Tribune grabbed Stein for an interview, and the electronic media soon followed. Not to be outdone, the Trib pulled a scoop of its own: An enormous page one photograph of Gacy chained to his jail bed. The guard who sold the photo to the paper was fired. On New Year's Eve, both papers ran special sections. The Sun-Times's "Weird World of John Wayne Gacy" featured an interview with a teenage male whore named Jaime who remembered seeing Gacy cruise the gay bars on the Near North Side. Gacy once picked...
...other segments, Beverly Hills starts to look like comedy nirvana. The movie's biggest laughs occur when Walter Matthau, as a square married man, wakes up one morning to find a whore passed out in his bed. His wife (Elaine May) arrives, and what to do? The ensuing low farce is Simon's variation on James Thurber's The Unicorn in the Garden, and the team of Matthau and May roast an old burlesque chestnut to a perfect crisp...
...remains immune not only to sex but even to quite innocent social overtures. Then one day in Central Park he encounters Marcie (Candice Bergen). Since she seems to have some of Jenny's smart-mouthed spirit, he manages at last to accept her invitation to go to bed. This development actually spoils the film's only promise; for a while it seemed that Oliver's Story might turn into a remake of one of those old Doris Day-Rock Hudson films, with O'Neal in the Day part-endlessly tempted but ever virtuous...
...came from a similarly afflicted family. Halliwell's mother had died when he was a child, and his unloving father had killed himself twelve years later, leaving a modest inheritance. It was with that money that Halliwell supported young Orton and bought the tiny North London bed-sitter where they lived and died...