Word: blacker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote," she lamented. What about fellow Hollywood Veter an Ronald Reagan? Said Shelley: "I met him during a screen test in 1945, and I seem to remember seeing a couple of gray hairs in his sideburns. He seemed old back then, but now his hair has gotten blacker, and he's gotten younger...
Ouch! As with a lot of other things in this curious little movie, which has the bland air of a sitcom but is blacker in spirit than it pretends to be, there is bitter, discomfiting truth in that moment. Writer Kaufman's guiding spirit is not misogynistic; he lays about him with a fine, impartial hand. For example, Jane Curtin, who could turn out to be Saturday Night Live's most valuable contribution to the movies, plays a woman reduced to instant penury when her husband abandons her and raids all their bank accounts before informing...