Word: diller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kindness, according to Model Cheryl Tiegs. Actress Monique Van Vooren insists that it involves subtlety. Comedienne Phyllis Diller says it happens when a man listens and learns. What is g.i.b.? It stands for "good in bed," and What Makes a Man G.I.B.? by British Writer Wendy Leigh hits U.S. bookstands next week. Leigh put the question to 49 well-known men and women. She got some startlingly explicit answers. There were only two no-comments, from Television Personality David Frost and Film Director Roman Polanski, who either didn't know or wouldn...
Reader Steve Smalling compared the second constitutional convention to a remake of Gone With the Wind with Woody Allen as Rhett and Phyllis Diller as Scarlett [March 12]. Personally, I prefer to think of it as the renovation of a historical landmark that if left alone would soon fall into decay and oblivion. Even the White House has to have a coat of paint now and then...
...allow today's politicians to call a second constitutional convention [Feb. 19] would be like doing a remake of Gone With the Wind with Woody Allen as Rhett and Phyllis Diller as Scarlett. Not only is the casting inappropriate, but it would ruin a masterpiece...
...farce about fraternity life in the '60s, has made $102 million. Crude and silly, Animal House has an abundance of animal spirits, which is what audiences seem to want. Whatever the reason for its success, "Animal House is just the beginning, not the end," says Paramount Head Barry Diller. "That kind of Saturday Night Live consciousness, that visual entertainment, will become a" staple," Another zany sleeper was Up in Smoke, one long giggle to the age of dope, dealing mainly with the encounters between two aging potheads and the law. Smoke's budget was $1 million...
Says Paramount's Diller, whose company had more hits than any other: "If you apply 1978's trend to next year, you're going to fail. I believe in going against everything, and I think audiences will want to be challenged, provoked and moved." Maybe so. But producers who agree might bear in mind that the hit of 1977, Star Wars, was revived in 1978 and for two months made everybody else look sick at the box office. (Long since the movie earner of all time, it has now grossed $267 million worldwide.) Why? Apparently because...