Word: crew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Martin uses sight gags to start a successful routine. He tells the audience that he wants to play a song on his banjo (which he plays admirably on the record) and that he needs a blue spotlight for the number. The lighting crew at the back of the auditorium doesn't respond to his request. So Martin launches into a tirade about the hippie lighting crew that thinks it knows more about show business than Martin does, even though he's been in the business "for a few years, and I think I know what works best...
Some directors lay on their heavy messages with a trowel; Ken Russell goes at you with a jack-hammer. Women in Love somehow enjoys a reputation as this one-man wrecking crew's most meaningful work, but here, as in all his other films, Russell's only evident meaning lies aching behind his zipper. "Was it too much for you?" Oliver Reed asks Alan Bates after they finish a wrestling match in the raw, the homosexual hints dripping off their bodies faster than swear. Then the line pops up again, this time after Reed has been rollicking in the snow...
...former president receives thousands of letters each month from people throughout the country. A crew of volunteer San Clemente women come to the Nixon compound to keep track of all the correspondence, and occasionally, Nixon will answer a letter personally, Price reports. "Most of the letters Nixon receives are supportive, which may seem surprising," Price says. "There are still a lot of people around the country that like him," he explains...
Heyerdahl, who is at least as good a fund raiser as he is an anthropologist, has sold all rights to the story of the Tigris to the British Broadcasting Corp., which has assigned a cameraman to film the voyage from beginning to end. He has engaged a nine-man crew that includes an American, a Russian, an Italian, a Mexican, a Japanese, a German, two Scandinavians and an Iraqi (three Indian dhow skippers, hired to help navigate through some difficult waters on the route, withdrew from the expedition when they got a look at the craft...
This international assemblage, which will sail under the United Nations flag, will have its hands full. The crew will have to be alert as the Tigris is towed down the Shatt al Arab, the narrow river that flows from the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Then they will sail into the Persian Gulf and through the tricky Strait of Hormuz before they try crossing the Arabian Sea to the shores of Africa or India. These waters, surrounded by oil-rich nations, are crisscrossed daily by huge supertankers that could miss the reed boat's small kerosene running...