Word: cameo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney General John Mitchell, 60, and former Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans, 66, who are charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury. Don Nixon was later followed to the stand by the second brother, Edward C. Nixon, 43, who appeared for the defense. For Nixon family watchers, the cameo roles played by the two brothers were a bonanza. The two men seldom venture into the glare of publicity. Indeed, Don Nixon had tried to beg off testifying because of heart trouble, but Federal Judge Lee P. Gagliardi ordered him examined by a physician and then decided that he should...
Scattered along the bends and twists of this satire-of-a-plot are cameo appearances and sight gags that somehow work. Alex Karras, the ox-like former tackle of the Detroit Lions, plays Mongo, a villain who storms into Rock Ridge and knocks out a horse with a punch in the mouth. Madeline Kahn, the nebbish circus dancer in Paper Moon, is a saloon singer who wails about her sexual fatigue in a clever ditty called "I'm Tired" (words and music, of course, by Mel Brooks...
Since Counterpoint is by genre a simple old-fashioned thriller, a professional touch could have created a breezy kind of Hollywood entertainment. Professionalism extends beyond the question of equipment--Brown's elaborate use of models and rear-projection, his advertising and the cameo stars, all are conceived in a professional way. But the appeal of a Hollywood picture depends on more than this: it has to make sense...
...action sequences are frequent but arthritic. Colleen Dewhurst - whom one hardly expects to find in such company-provides an agreeable cameo as a roundheeled cocktail waitress with a taste for cocaine. The Duke remains amiable and unruffled throughout, but it is a bit troubling to see him poaching so obviously on Clint Eastwood's loner-cop territory...
...Cameo Perfection. In the 250 films that Jones has directed-most of them no more than six minutes long-he has laid waste the pretensions of grand opera (What's Opera, Doc?, Rabbit of Seville), made black comedy out of nuclear warfare a decade before Dr. Strangelove (Duck Dodgers in the 24½ Century), played with the mechanics of film making (Duck Amuck, which might be called the Persona of animated cartoons), and lampooned every movie genre from cops to swashbucklers. His One Froggy Evening, starring a mysterious singing frog called Michigan J., is a morality play in cameo...