Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Celt's castle. Led by Center Bill Russell, Boston hopped into a 10-0 lead after the first four minutes, ran the score to 76-60 by the third quarter. Finally, with a ten-point lead and 25 sec. to go, out came the famous cigar. Programs, paper cups, hats and pillows filled the air; screaming fans mobbed the Boston bench. With all those distractions, the Celtics could be pardoned for letting the Lakers slip in a few baskets; then they froze the ball...
Anyway, the house at length becomes overcrowded with monsters and beach people, until a chain reaction sets in and Ghost spirals down to a groovy finish. In the interim director Don Weis proves himself no cigar, but a half-decent movie and a promising new genre emerge in spite...
...Angels, based on Jane Trahey's Life with Mother Superior, Mother Superior Rosalind Russell does none of these things. She wisely leaves such nonsense to lesser members of the faculty, while she herself wages a war of nerves with Hayley Mills and June Harding, a pair of cigar-smoking students who seem determined to overthrow dear old St. Francis Academy by force and violence...
...brings it to Broadway with much fresh material culled from Twain's writings. The casual format is that of one of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures when he was 70. The props are simple: a lectern, a Victorian chair, a pitcher of water, an omnipresent cigar from which Holbrook fires volleys of smoke like a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside his thunderbolts for cheroots...
...fell in love with them, and fell hard. Hard enough, at least, to set off a serious debate on a group of films seemingly made only to fill the second half of a drive-in double bill. Some people called fuller a genius, and others labeled him a reactionary cigar-chomping fraud. Even the New York Times devoted an article to finding out who Sam Fuller was and what kind of picture the made...