Word: bunche
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...Less mythic, less funny, and much less dear to CP is Yours, Mine and Ours (1968), a treacly lightweight in which Henry Fonda and his ten children get all tangled up with Lucille Ball and her eight. It's The Brady Bunch meets The Swarm (also with Fonda), strictly for chuckle-prone domestic types for whom a gaggle of pouting cherubs are an apt substitute for just about anything. Reasons to watch: a young Tim Matheson, a full decade before Animal House, and a few winning moments involving, yes, pouting cherubs. Plus, after the terrific Mister Roberts, it's good...
...down, chat and order yourself a drink, but when it comes, don't touch it. Soon after, apologize for having to leave so soon, but tell them how you had a great time with them, pay for your drink (which you didn't drink) and go meet the next bunch. It's all about being so busy that you can't even drink your drink...
...that begs to be asked is just how Harvard Coach Tim Wheaton and his athletes maintain their domination of Ivy League soccer. Obviously, an important factor is the coaching. (Patriots fans have only to consider two words--Bill Parcells--to understand this.) Somehow Wheaton is able to take a bunch of new an old faces every year and build teams that not only wins games but have great chemistry as well. Wheaton's teams always seem to have an identity and confidence, especially late in the season, that are the trademarks of a winning program...
...most part, the East has a different philosophy in teaching horseback riding than the West does. I was taught how to ride in Wyoming by some cowboys who put me on a wild horse with no helmet and sent me off galloping into the sunset with a bunch of equally clueless beginners. Fortunately I survived this 'sink-or-swim' way of teaching without breaking my neck (only a few bruises), but obviously this is not how Boston Equestrian teaches riding or they'd in court every day facing massive lawsuits...
Hoffman's Brackett is by far the most complex and believable character of the bunch. Still, the writers need him to become more sympathetic as the climax approaches, and they try very hard to make us like him again, a feat which requires some serious mid-movie plot engineering (up to this point, we've only seen him capitalizing on tragedy and weighing the pros and cons of seducing Lori). Halfway into the film, two wolfish network producers inexplicably show us a clip of Brackett and anchor Hollander on the site of a gruesome airplane crash. Shaken by the carnage...