Word: bloodhounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stiff formality and paternal desire to raise his way-ward daughter as "a lady." Young Burlinson, with his impish smile and refreshing honesty, is certainly a find, and Jack Thompson, who will seem familiar for his role as the defense attorney in "Breaker Morant," plays a half-cowboy, "half-bloodhound" tracker with panache...
Bartering personal privacy to sell the Angels could be laughed off as tacky but clever; but Sliwa's antics in Atlanta were a different story. As the nation helplessly watched authorities try to catch the murderer of Black children in Atlanta. Sliwa joined the various psychics, bloodhound-owners and other publicity-seekers who publicly announced they would lend a hand to the investigators. Never mind that the Angels were not an investigative unit: they would start a chapter in Atlanta. The incident was especially distasteful because Atlanta residents, almost numb with grief, had already formed citizen patrol groups...
Peter De Vries is one of those sad comics with bloodhound eyes who seem to be sniffing their gloomy way toward the ultimate one-liner: "All flesh is as grass." Or "Id is not just another big word." Or maybe: "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." The perfect allegorical hero for De Vries might be a Dutch Calvinist furniture mover from Chicago (like De Vries' father), carrying the world on his shoulders-especially the heavy end with the lode of guilt...
With each year Walter Matthau looks more and more like an affable bloodhound. His cheeks seem to grow pouchier, his eyes more sadly knowing, his manner ever more wisely patient. To his basic screen self this great comedian of calm has added, in Hopscotch, a nicely distracted air: he moves through the picture humming bits of Mozart and even, at times, conducting an imaginary orchestra...
...celebrity guests occasionally drop by to take part in the action: Tennis Pro Arthur Ashe, for example, hits a serve timed by radar, and Actor Gene Wilder illustrates communication by talking to a dog. The episodes end with a minimystery film starring three young detectives, known as the Bloodhound Gang, who reason their way to the solution of a crime...