Word: carol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freer, more personal films that flowed from its success, Nicholson became a kind of figurehead for a loose group of actors and film makers who were trying to expand the commercial genre. Nicholson, Actors Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, Writer-Directors Bob Rafelson, Monte Hellman, Carol and Charles Eastman-none of them then well known-all cheered and boosted each other. Their work was almost always full of aggressive invention (Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, Hopper's The Last Movie, Nicholson's own Drive, He Said), but the new Hollywood passed, the victim of erratic returns...
...hopes and lapsed memories must have appealed to Nicholson's sense of irony, and worked as well on his aggressive sense of pride. He enrolled in a beginner's acting course run by Actor Jeff Corey. Other pupils included James Coburn, Sally Kellerman, Producer Roger Corman, Writers Carol Eastman and Robert Towne. Nicholson and Towne (who was later to write the screenplays of The Last Detail and Chinatown) hit it off immediately and shared a small apartment on the hungry fringes of Hollywood. Both of them had crushes on every actress in the class, Towne remembers...
...CAROL CRUNK...
What High School Senior Randi Lamkin, 17, did on her summer vacation comes down to a single big day. One morning last week, Randi and her friend Carol Jenks were floating off West Yarmouth, Mass., on a rubber raft. Pretty soon a wind came up and the girls went bobbing out to sea. Randi's father David, her brother Chuck and Chuck's friend Stan Sacks went out to rescue them in a motorboat, but the waves were so choppy that the boat was swamped. Then Senator Ted Kennedy's big sailboat hove into view. Said...
Shapiro's attacks on the bounties of popular television are pratfall absurdist, his dithering humor a hybrid of Robert Downey (Greaser's Palace, Putney Swope) and Carol Burnett. Shapiro's tactic is to restage some popular forms-a commercial, an adventure series, the 6 o'clock news-with all due attention to nuances of style. One of The Groove Tube's best sequences, for example, is a Butz beer commercial...