Word: bitched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beautiful that every time she has a close-up we are in danger of forgetting what the movie is about. Rarely has an actress invested her beauty with so much variety and expressiveness. Miss Leigh's performance starts in her face and works outward, refusing to compromise Scarlett's bitch-coldness with an appeal to sympathy. War and poverty violently propel her into adulthood, giving her no time to mature; beneath the ruthless woman, Miss Leigh always betrays traces of the spoiled young girl. She is not alternately shrewd and charming, but both at once, too huge a character...
...absurd. They have been running and suddenly can't take the next step. Bunuel shows how agonizing apathy is. You want desperately to go forward, yet you're in a sort of vaccuum. The longer you remain in it, the more you try to fill it up. You bitch and invent distracting crises. The host, upon urging, offers to shoot himself for inviting everybody over. People begin to thirst and starve so that a piece of fruit, rather than departure, occupies their minds...
...cast was brilliant. While Anne Bancroft (Regina) was playing for time, she looked like a panther who had faith in claws. A diabolical laugh ran through her voice whenever she gained the upper hand. And the times she lost control--my God, what a bitch...
...says that he has learned to control his celebrated temper and swears that he no longer dashes off such angry letters to critics as the one he sent to Harriet Van Home when she was TV colum nist for the N.Y. World-Telegram: "Dear Miss Van Home: You bitch. Sincerely, Ed Sullivan...
...Variety to lambaste the singer for "false and reckless charges"; Frankie countered with his own ad calling Sullivan "sick, sick, sick." Such is his relative benignity that the worst he can say for his old competitor Jack Paar is that he is a "thoroughly no-good son of a bitch. That's spelled...