Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roughnecks push the duo out of their motel and onto the open prairie. There they set up house, a hibachi and Mickey's Roy Orbison records, and they look for romance outside the local jail, waiting for the first newly sprung women--two gold-hearted hookers named Brenda (Dawn Couch) and Cathy (Pamela Gien...
Marty Lodge and Dawn Couch recite the lines and practice the form they will use that night as the characters Poot and Brenda in the American Repertory Theatre's (ART) performance of William Hauptman's Gillette...
Even in those early days, signs might have pointed an expert on alcoholism toward my growing problem. One hint was my immediate tendency to drink to unconsciousness. At parties, I would often fall asleep in mid-hullabaloo on the couch. That drew plenty of jokes at the time. Only much later did I recognize that I had been passing out. Another signal was an initial, abnormally high tolerance for alcohol, at least until the passing-out stage. I thought I could hold my liquor pretty well. Now I think it means that my body was being less dutiful than most...
...stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the episode is a bit sketchy and disjointed, but Lloyd fills the screen with a funny yet carefully modulated portrait. Watch him try to con a tourist couple by rattling off a list of bogus screenwriting credits, casually mispronouncing Ninotchka. Or, slumped on a couch, lamenting to a friend (Dennis Franz) that he has come up empty on a script the studio needs that afternoon: "Put a fork in me, Lou, I'm done." Cut and print...
They are rehearsing in excruciating detail how they will respond the next time the boss ushers them to a low couch and works over their egos like the mad dentist in Little Shop of Horrors...