Word: brainstormer
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...Brainstorm begins with a small, safe idea, carefully contrived to spur concern for the right people. Driving home from work one night, a sober young research analyst (Jeff Hunter) comes upon a locked limousine stalled on the railroad tracks, with an irresistible blonde (Anne Francis) asleep inside. Of course, he saves her from an approaching train. Of course, she upbraids him for spoiling her attempted suicide, and of course she turns out to be the wife of his employer (Dana Andrews), the ruthless tycoon who heads Benson Industries...
Some plot surprises eventually do turn up in Brainstorm, but none sturdy enough to compete with Producer-Director William Conrad's unsettling cinematic mannerisms. He recklessly jump-cuts from scene to scene, using gimmicky transitions or linking one sequence to another with trick dialogue. Between times, the plot turns upon Jeff's illicit love for Anne and his rash notion that he can murder her sadistic mate and get away with it by feigning insanity. The deed accomplished, all goes well until his encounter with a strikingly theatrical psychiatrist (Viveca Lindfors) who hints as tactfully as possible that...
...Best Man. Because of this, Hersey's appointment was accepted with enthusiasm at Yale. "It was an absolute brainstorm to have that kind of person come in here," said Composer Quincy...
Sitting idly aboard an airliner one day in 1956, a Tennessee theater-chain owner named David Flexer was struck by how much the cabin resembled a screening room. Flexer's brainstorm: Why not show movies in flight? He formed a company called Inflight Motion Pictures, Inc., spent five years developing a compact, shock-resistant projector and screen with the help of Trans World Airlines...
...morally straight. And now it's going to be clean too. Along with his 20-odd other ventures, Golfer Arnold Palmer, 34, is going into the laundry business in New York. It's called Arnold Palmer Laundries, Dry Cleaning and Maid Service Inc., is really the brainstorm of former Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood, who's been in the business a long time. All Arnie has to do is be board chairman and collect the dough. Like the company slogan says: "Suits...