Word: chucking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Directed by Chuck Jones...
Screenplay by Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones...
Outlandish as it may seem, it is possible that some day Animator Chuck Jones may come to be regarded as the American Buñuel. Like the Spanish master, Jones finds his great subject in obsession, and he understands that finally, all truly memorable comedy results from observing creatures caught helplessly in the grip of irrational, inexplicable passions. Buñuel's obsessives are all sexually motivated; Jones' great creation, Wile E. Coyote, has a loftier theme: the annihilation of that uncannily shrewd nemesis the Road Runner...
Helms' resentment increased when members of the Nixon White House, such as Chuck Colson and H.R. Haldeman, began hinting that Watergate may have been, after all, a CIA operation; and it peaked when John Ehrlichman wrote The Company, which featured a CIA director very much like Richard Helms black-mailing a President very much like Richard Nixon: give me an ambassadorship or I'll expose Watergate's sleazy underside. Why the hell would I want to be ambassador to Iran? says Helms...
...hulking righthander then settled back down to retire the side. Bibby gave manager Chuck Tanner one more strong inning before Manny Sanguillen was called on to pinchhit for him in the top of the fifth...