Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Powell adds a dimension of humor and quick comeback. But if Carter should ever decide that he wants to close things down a bit, then all those jokes from Jody and his engaging ways would not mean a thing. He would probably be even more reviled for trying to con reporters out of facts by being funny...
Peter Fonda started out with handle bars; now he's into musical bars. The easy rider makes his singing debut in the film Outlaw Blues as an ex-con-turned-songwriter who hooks up with a pretty country-and-western singer (Susan St. James). Prior crooning credentials of the star include solos in the shower and a 1965 single, Chisa, that failed to make the charts. "All my life I've wanted to be a singer," claims Peter, 37. Should Mick Jagger, George Harrison & Co. start eating their hearts out? Not according to Critic Fonda. "I think...
Away from the cameras, Chase looks more like a laid-back graduate student than a TV star. His shirt is rumpled, his hair unruly and his eyes filled with mischief. Even in casual conversation, he is a shameless put-on artist, a comic con man negotiating for a laugh. If he wanted, Chevy Chase could probably sell aluminum siding to a roaming wagonload of gypsies...
...admits he wrote the oration for the sake of his "con-artist tendencies and a with to make people laugh...
...Murray and McDonnell families, a legendary New York clan that once boasted enough money to buy an army and enough children to make the purchase unnecessary. Like any success story, the book starts with the meteoric rise of the family's patriarch, Thomas E. Murray, a founder of Con Ed, from the depths of shanty Irish poverty to the top of the corporate utility world, a $9 million fortune, and more lace curtains than he ever could have imagined. And the story stays sweet for a while. Corry shows the first triumphant flush of Irish-Catholic society, as Murray...