Word: blubbing
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...macho display. "It might surprise you to know that Englishmen don't tend to find American 'gals' that tantalising," sniffed the Mirror. Spat the Times of London: "Only a certain sort of man would be attracted to a woman whose greatest qualities are her thinness and her ability to blub on cue." And the Daily Mail suggested that Paltrow is suffering from a bruised ego now that ex-boyfriend Ben Affleck is dating Jennifer Lopez. Well, at least she figured out a way to get their testosterone pumping...
...bathroom sink. Very spooky. There's a lot of ice floating around, seen from below, and in the middle of the Cinemascope screen something that looks, at extreme close range, as if it might be the hull of the Titanic. Bubbles are coming out of this ambiguous mass, "BLUB-BLUB-BLUB-BLUB!" Tension grips the audience as the bubbling thing, strangely facelike, rises and breaks the surface of the water. The camera follows. Water dribbles off the lens, and the viewer is on the point of understanding what this goofball nonsense is all about when the screen is obscured...
...twenty." She ballooned up to 155 lbs., she says, just after she and her husband Stan Dragoti, a well-established TV commercial maker, were married, and she dropped out of modeling. Then she stopped eating fattening foods ?"Sorry," she says, "but that's the secret"?and the blub dropped away...
Offstage she is a sunny torrent of activity. "I squeak cheerfulness," she says, "in the face of adversity." She carries on an endless correspondence with her family, loves to have a good blub over their letters. To relieve the Manhattany, she often cooks up an enormous meal?one of her favorites is a lamb casserole crammed with raisins, garlic, apples, onions and lemons. She downs yoghurt by the pint, and has been heard to hail a taxi by imitating the shriek of a pewit?which she learned from a Northumbrian shepherd when she was nine years...
When Restaurateur Toots Shor dove off a bar stool and fractured his right wrist a few weeks back, Jackie Gleason, 47, provided as much tease as sympathy. But The Blub is getting last licks. In a TV role, Gleason had to pedal downhill on a bike into a phony brick wall. The wall was supposed to fall away. Instead it fell on him, and lo and behold, a broken left wrist. With his injured appendage safely enslinged, Gleason offered a truce to Toots. "Now," he cracked, "we can go out and buy a pair of gloves together...