Word: bellhops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Levant consistently manages to upstage her. The highlight is a dance number with Astaire as a private eye and Charisse as the sleazy streetwalker in distress. Lots of good songs, and a plot so old that you just have to love it. Channel 3. 9:00 p.m.--The Battling Bellhop. The two premiere tough-asses of all time meet in a tale of fighters, dames, and lots of money. Edward G. Robinson discovers Wayne Morris in a hotel lobby and makes him into a contender, while trying to keep Bette Davis' hands off him. Humphrey Bogart is the evil opponent...
Last December, when Edward Carlson took over United Air Lines, company wits spread the gag that he would ground U.A.L.'s superjets and run them as hotels. The point of the barb: Carlson had risen from bellhop to president of the Seattle-based Western International Hotel chain, but his airline background was limited to less than five months of sitting on United's board after Western was merged into U.A.L. If anything, lack of experience in the deficit-ridden industry has proved an advantage. In 1970 United lost almost $41 million, but last week it reported a third...
...working, though, Perelman can be so funny it's almost awe-inspiring. What can one say about the words he sprinkles through the book, always in impeccably proper context: words like dyspnea, archimandrite, steatopygous, and eisteddfod? And what would Dickens have given to use this description of a bellhop at an old Hollywood hotel: "a stoop-shouldered, overworked wraith with an air of patient resignation like that of Zasu Pitts." Perelman is making a pass at a beautiful colleen (all his women are beautiful but for lips or nostrils that are a trifle too sensuous, a figure a shade...
...Effortless. Flip eventually traded his khakis for a bellhop's uniform at San Francisco's Manor Plaza Hotel, where he made his nightclub debut playing a drunk. Soon he was hustling laughs in California saloons and slowly filling a loose-leaf notebook (which he still keeps) with his observations on comedy. Cardinal tenets in the Wilson canon: "Be interesting, be impassive, be effortless." Above all: "Make them remember Flip Wilson as a self-confident man of the world, projecting an 'I Don't Care If You Laugh' attitude...
...bellhop brought Pepsi and Michelob for the overheated professors. Bator had iced coffee. The phone rang. Bator answered...