Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about herself. Perhaps that is the worst thing about Ephron's method of personal journalism--you have to take her in her good moods as well as in her bad, just the way you would with any friend. But on balance, for a few hours, Ephron makes a terrific companion...
...novelty is the drowning pool itself, a hydrotherapy room that, when flooded, poses a fearful threat to Harper and a fair companion. The rest of the movie is comprised of situations as familiar as the characters: the car-run-off-the-road scene; the private-eye-being-rousted-by-the-local-fuzz scene (cop weighing eye's fire arm: "You got a license for this thing?"); and the final, unpersuasive unearthing-of-the-dark-family-secret scene. The dialogue is also obligatory, right down to the girl's wistful line, "You're not such a tough...
...want to get jawed?" shouted one kid to another in the Santa Monica, Calif., surf. Even the lowly dogfish, the spaniel of the seas but a shark just the same, is suspected of homicidal intentions. "Kill it, kill it," urged a Long Island angler to his companion dangling a 2-ft.-long, almost toothless fish from his rod, "before it grows up to kill...
...with several hundred thousand to spare. His latest album, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, had an advance sale to retailers of 1.4 million copies before anyone outside the recording studios had heard a single bar of this extraordinary autobiography in music by Elton and his faithful lyricist-companion, Bernie Taupin. This week it was in the No. 1 spot on all major U.S. record charts...
...which he will be buried. His persona is still the kind of man whose profile should not be painted but wallpapered. His situations continue to bear traces of two Keatons. In this case, Buster is the right source; Diane is not. Allen's longtime companion is saddled with Lines that make her Groucho in bombazine ("Thank you, your grubbiness"). Because she cannot generate a style of her own, Keaton soon draws attention to the film maker's weakness: his movies, populated solely with Woody Allens, are like Walt Disney's old Goofy cartoons, in which every character...