Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparison to the children in the other youth pictures, they seem to be drifting into senility, an impression strongly reinforced by their mummified acting. Jane Asher and Sven-Bertil Taube are attractive and easy enough to take, but Hywel Bennett looks like a cross between Paul McCartney and Elmer Fudd. Then there is doe-eyed Leigh Taylor-Young, an actively bad actress who improves only when she takes her clothes...
...year of Burt Force with Brute Lancaster. Or was it Brute Force with Burt Lancaster? Hood and hero, buccaneer and intellectual, Lancaster played them all, sometimes simultaneously. His characterizations were usually as delicate as his incisors, but in such films as Birdman of Alcatraz and Elmer Gantry he was restrained and acute...
...ELMER N. STUETZER St. Louis...
...Trusting. Within a few days after the bills were introduced, large purchases of shares in National Bankers Life Insurance Co. stock were made by Governor Smith; Gus Mutscher, speaker of the state house of representatives; Elmer Baum, head of the Democratic state executive committee; State Representative Tommy Shannon, who introduced the legislation; and W.S. Heatly, chairman of the state house appropriations committee. They and other influential Democrats bought the stock at between 11⅛ and 13¾ a share. Much of the buying was done with loans from the Sharp-controlled bank, with the stock itself as collateral...
Though deeper in correspondents and smarter in production during the last 18 months, the ABC evening news has never been able to command more than about 20% of the three-network audience. All that was missing, ABC News President Elmer Lower concluded, was what he called a "box office value" anchor man. A national survey commissioned from an audience-research firm showed that CBS's Walter Cronkite was America's favorite; No. 2 was not NBC's David Brinkley or Chet Huntley (he was still around then) or even Reynolds' fellow commentator, Howard K. Smith...