Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Lester is everybody's favorite director. For those to whom movies are "cinema" he provides endless hours of coffee chitchat about stills, shots, frames, ad infinitum. For the rest, he provides terribly bright, fresh, and--guess what--funny comedies. He helped make the Beatles more than teenage idols, Rita Tushingham a comedienne with the word "rape," and English films the prime examples of that ye-ye renaissance. When he turned his hand to filming a Broadway musical that smacked of burlesque that chitchat became more intense than ever. Now it appears he can do no wrong. A funny thing...
...fought three rounds with Archie Moore, who gave him a bloody nose. In 1960, he pitched an endless inning to a line-up of major-league All-Stars, who toyed with him by fouling off as many as 20 pitches before delivering the coup de grâce. In his latest adventure, Plimpton was last-string quarterback for the Detroit Lions during training season. This account of his adventure goes beyond an amateur's blushing recital to become a participant's picture of the sixties' hottest spectator sport...
...last job as a truck loader because of his troubles. In November, he was arrested for burglary and disorderly conduct, after a policeman found him urinating under a porch near a just-robbed Chicago restaurant. He now faces trial on those charges, forcing yet another jury to ponder the endless case of the police v. Escobedo...
...Carol Burnett, Composer-Conductor Andre Previn and his wife Dory. At Christmastime, she invites them all in, and "to everyone's annoyance and chagrin, I make mulled wine, all icky and sticky. I'm the only one who likes it." When she can manage to avoid the endless squads of fans, she sneaks off to concerts (preferences: Mahler, Rachmaninoff), but no longer goes to the movies. Instead, for privacy's sake, she runs films in her home-"on the smooth wall of the playroom if it's a good movie, on the brick wall...
...arsenal of toy guns, helmets, boy-size bazookas and similar military attractions unsold upon the shelves. "People are sickened by anything painted in olive drab," said Harvey Cole, a wholesale distributor in the Seattle area. There was, added a competitor, just one exception. "Along comes G.I. Joe and his endless military gear and the parents rush the stores. You explain...