Word: couch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fair, there are a few good scenes in the movie and even an attempted plot. In fact, there's probably even enough material for a good ten minute short. As the film opens, Pedro (Cheech) rises from his couch as his kids play on him, around him, under him. Staggering into the bathroom, he begins to urinate, and upon closer examination finds that what he thought was the toilet is the clothes hamper. Immediately the tone of the whole movie...
Giamatti is in Boston to address a group of Yale alumni. He leans back on the couch, taking a puff on his cigarette. He had hoped to use a portion of his "freshman talk" in his speech, but abandons the plan because it just wouldn't fit. To be sure, whatever he wants to tell alumni contains the same seeds of thoughts, but maybe you can't tell alumni the same things you would a class of freshmen. "The purpose of a budget," Giamatti says, "is not an end in itself." His speech to the alumni will be about choice...
...snapped a beer from a six pack and sat down next to us to watch the ball game, and when the press wizards saw the free drinks, several rushed over to our couch, breathing hard and sweating in the air-conditioned room. "After all," one news service reporter said, "it's only a convention, and baseball's a much better game...
...farmer's son. Evita, as the crowd called her, was a third-rate actress with first-rate street smarts who worked her way up from the casting couch to the Pink House, the traditional seat of Argentina's First Family. When she died in 1952 of cancer at the age of 33, the bereaved descamisados sought to have her canonized. The Vatican diplomatically declined, suggesting that her good works were basically secular...
...long-dead father. The daughter (Shaine Marinson) is cipher, and the aide (David Rasche) only a little better. This leaves the mother as the sole rounded character, and Irene Worth never fails to hold out interest--whether singing, preparing food, looking out the window, lying on a couch, or blowing out 17 candles...