Word: chaser
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...would be unjust to call Leslie Fiedler the ambulance chaser of U.S. letters, but he is something of a legal beagle. Literature seems to be more his client, or adversary, than his love. He spends half his time sleuthing for clues and the other half setting up a court case. As an advocate, Fiedler can be brilliant, infuriating, or slyly provocative. On one of his more celebrated undercover forays, he unmasked-to his own satisfaction-more homosexuals in American novels than Joe McCarthy ever managed to ferret out in the State Department...
...makes each man a very different type, and he is wickedly on target with both. Birdboot (Tom Lacy) is an expansive, chocolate-munching show-bird chaser who finds almost everything "a rattling good show." Moon (David Rounds) is an emotionally constipated, intellectually rabid exegete; any wispy pile of dramatic dandruff can fuel his fire about "the human condition...
...very fair run for its money. The girl is a nice French teacher named Miss Piano, whose forte is snatching the conversational ball from a man and running with it farther and more knowledgeably than he ever could. The boy is Al Banghart, a canny, easygoing Chicago skirt chaser and lowbrow who once flunked her high school French course. Besides being fond of Miss Piano, Al believes in her career. When they marry, he quits his nowhere job in the hat factory to keep house...
Director Billy Wilder once ecstatically claimed that Walter Matthau "could play anything from Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara." For more than a decade Matthau was as unpredictable as his facial expressions: an adamant sheriff in Lonely Are the Brave, a psychopathic killer in Charade, an ambulance chaser in The Fortune Cookie, the libidinous suburban husband in A Guide for the Married Man. Of late, his roles have yielded an amusing but unvarying character: the rumpled crank whose shpeesh shoundsh ash if it wash making itsh way around a shigar. Plaza Suite happily puts him in reverse. In Arthur...
During the sessions, Scott was candid and articulate, though Cronin sensed that "everyone on the set was a little afraid of him." There was an occasional beer (with a vodka chaser), but nothing more. The cussedness? "The Spanish crew was crazy about him, and he treated them as fellow workers. He played cards and chess with them...