Word: chitchat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some impassioned viewers tried to crash the obstetrics ward to catch a glimpse of her husband and coanchor, Chet Curtis, 42, and her baby, Lindsay Dawn. Thousands of letters and cards poured into the station office. Not only was her pregnancy the occasional subject of the on-camera chitchat that passes between members of television news teams, but a local newspaper gave Page One treatment to Jacobson's call to her husband with the good news of her pregnancy. Viewers participated in a gestation countdown...
...hearted floozies, a gesticulating Mexican grocer, and the large, dull-witted Black man who appears so frequently in Steinbeck's novels--Ward must have figured he could get away with very little plot. Whole scenes are devoted to "local color"--people staring off into the sea, or making idle chitchat. Early on, Doc discourses for a full six minutes about the habits of some octupi he has found in the surf. They look lovely with their frothy tendrils waving delicately in Doc's fish tank, but they don't do much to advance the plot. Then again, the most poignant...
Most frustrating of all is the absence, in the scenes shown, of any elements that would seem to warrant such loving attention. We can see too clearly that the social encounters of Fran's single life are empty and boring: the chitchat, as the incredible trolley slides across the stage, is just that. We are convinced of the rightness of Alfred's choice of farce as a device when Fran's unacceptable, unsympathetic beaux parade through her living room and her crazy German neighbors scream from upstairs; these scenes and characters compose the essentials of farce, so much so that...
...stylishly dressed party of eight lunching at a center table in Chicago's tony Ritz-Carlton restaurant is about to start the second course. As white-aproned waiters whisk in artichauts vinaigrette, the guests exchange amiable chitchat. Dark-haired August Walker Pelton regales the group with an anecdote about Princess Caroline of Monaco. "She tells me," he confides, "that when anyone in their family has elbows on the table, her grandmother jabs them with a fork." In the lull that follows, Bridget Dunham chews meditatively on her water goblet, picks her teeth, then dives under the table after...
...Stevie and her "lion aunt" - is insistently naturalistic, yet Stevie is as cluttered with brickbat metaphors as the cottage parlor is with bric-a-brac. But if the camera eye too often blinks, the film's mind and heart are humanly acute. The dialogue deftly threads domestic chitchat and Big Themes: the detachment of the artist, the terrifying uncontrollability of life. And at the film's center is the simple trust binding a girl and her aunt...