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...heavy Hollywood ambitions. Meantime, Dandy Dan (Martin Lev) is muscling in on Fat Sam's territory, making use of a deadly new weapon called the "splurge gun." Fat Sam, lacking this latest in weaponry, must defend his holdings with that most ancient and honorable of movie armaments, the custard pie. He also recruits Bugsy to furnish a little brawn and some badly needed brains. Bugsy, however, is frequently absent from duty, since he has taken to managing a heavyweight prizefighter named Leroy (Paul Murphy). Bugsy has high hopes that his boy's fistic skills will help raise...
...pedal power. Lots of people get rubbed out in the gangland power struggle, but nobody dies. The splurge tommy guns, designed with the help of a gunsmith, shoot a substance that looks like deliquescent marshmallow. If anyone is hit by a fusillade of splurge-or, alternatively, with a custard pie in the kisser-their passing is denoted simply and rather sweetly by a frame freeze of their plastered visage. Ultimately, though, pies and even splurge become harmless in a raucous grand finale that finds the entire cast embroiled in an all-out battle of sweet shooting and pie heaving...
...incarnation of the middleman between a world gone culturally haywire and the uncomprehending mass of mankind. His function: telling people why they should admire nonsense. This inept critic is a figure of Chaplinesque pathos: a tastemaker totally lacking in taste, a perpetual target of the avant-garde's custard pies...
...evidently, the price one pays for an Allen comedy. It is worth the fee. For unlike his closest cinematic competitor, Mel Brooks, Allen aims his custard pies up, not down. If his humor is merciless, it is not unkind; Boris' angry monologues with God are closer to Fiddler on the Roof than to comic on the make. The same affection courses through his parodies of Fellini and Bergman and of Pierre at Borodino. In mocking classics, in touching on the topics of religion and mortality, Allen has drawn laughter where there was silence and mustaches where there were faces...
...find local youths lounging on the beach and playing tennis instead of shooting at the old peach basket. U.C.L.A. boosters were equally bemused to discover that their Hoosier hotshot did not take to the cocktails-and-canapes circuit. His speed was a deviled-egg sandwich and a dish of custard at Hollis Johnson's Fountain and Grill, an eatery that he still frequently attends. Put off at first, the India Rubber Man bounced back by setting everyone straight on what to expect. "The fast break is my system," he declared at a U.C.L.A. banquet...