Word: cavorters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film trying to subsidize the dream. Meanwhile they live precariously, like Vegas princes in seamy unpaid-for hotel rooms. Jason (Bruce Dera), keeps a harem of two, Sally (Ellen Burstyn), a juicy tart past her prime, and Jessica (Julie Anne Robinson), her puppet-like "stepdaughter." The four cavort from bisexual bedside to desolate beach and boardwalk. But their joyride is scarred by an undertone of tension as they blind themselves to the steady disintegration of their dream...
...seniors of Yale's football varsity today is the last chance. The last chance to pull on the Bulldog blue Jerseys, the last chance to listen to 'Ole Carm's pre-game type, the last chance to cavort in the Stadium. But above all, it is the last chance they will have to beat Harvard in football...
GOLDEN BUDDHAS, Greek Gods, Zen mystics, tigers, bulls, earthy wood nymphs, and even such personified abstractions as Stygian Sleep and Pleasure cavort their way across the Loeb's colorful arena to execute in rapid-fire "Laugh-In" style succession the Chicago Project's string of Chinese Wisecrackers. This melange was originally conceived as class exercises and improvisation lessons at Columbia College of Communication in Chicago, a radio, film, and performing arts conservatory. Transformed by Director Don Sanders and members of the Columbia theatre collective into a fusion of fifteen comic vignettes, the performance intertwines Zen mysticism and Greek myths...
During shooting, says Coppola, "there was a full flush of intuition that Brando fused with his technique. If a herd of buffalo ran across the set, he'd react in character." For Brando's death scene, the script called for him to cavort with his grandson in a garden, then topple over from a stroke. Brando suggested adding a little game that he played with his own children: he cut a set of jagged fangs from an orange rind and inserted them in his mouth. The result not only drew a spontaneous on-screen reaction from the child...