Word: edna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by BRIAN G. MUTTON Screenplay by EDNA O'BRIEN
Visiting Locusts. In Act II, Mel has not only been fired, but his unanticipated severance pay is a nervous breakdown. His wife Edna (Lee Grant) goes to work, and that bruises his pride further. His psychoanalyst has died, taking $23,000 of Mel's money with him. He has a visitation of locusts-his two sisters, a sister-in-law and his older brother Harry (Vincent Gardenia)-who tell him that the family is determined to provide "X-number of dollars" to assist him. The attempt to agree on what X-number of dollars is in cash supplies...
...foremost humorist, savagely satirizes what he calls "the pseuds"-the self-consciously trendy Australians caught up in an age of television, jet charters and public relations. But his chief targets are suburban living and Australian respectability, which he lampoons in the form of two characters he plays: Mrs. Edna Everage, a dogmatic, middle-aged Melbourne lady who wears bizarre hats and white gloves, and is wild about the Queen, gladioli and ex-Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies; and Sandy Stone, a middle-aged husband addicted to the Reader's Digest, radio serials and budgerigars...
...them. Hayward promptly turned agent and arranged the deal. "I decided this was my line of work," he said after collecting his 10% commission. After that, he steered the careers of James Stewart, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire, Katharine Hepburn-also such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Edna Ferber and Ben Hecht. In 1944, he moved to Broadway, producing or co-producing, among other hits, A Bell for Adano, South Pacific, Gypsy, The Sound of Music...
...Abner's creator and one of the big attractions of the celebraton, had titillated them with a long chuckling monologue-"I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just a stone's throw from Harvard.... As for John Kenneth Galbraith, well [chuckle], he's by far the best American economist since Edna St. Vincent Mllay.... I think the bedwetting, lunatic left knows that it's lost.... We're in for something ghastly this fall.... My prediction is that there will be killings at Harvard Square this fall...