Word: fadeouts
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...Hollywood should evaporate, and the $650,000 house in Peekskill were to float away on the little stream it straddles, Jackie Gleason would still have a way to stay solvent. Since the age of 13, he has had something to fall back on. As Paul Newman says at the fadeout of The Hustler: "Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool...
...classic realm of the imagination but a huge waste-of-time land. There are usually stories about neurasthenic little animals that want to secede from the animal kingdom. There are tales about plug-ugly ducklings (human) who can't seem to acquire a friend until the sentimental fadeout page. For pre-teentimers there are soap operettas about girls "who never quite know how to talk to boys." The boys are usually busy talking to a pet moose or rocketing off to the moon. But at least, the cautionary yarns of the brush-your-teeth-or-mommy...
...cautiously heedful of the fact that the car has bald tires, they take lodging (separate rooms, of course) at a motel. But love blooms through the plasterboard, and some lowlife spreads the news. Scandal breaks loose. Elvis sings several mournful ballads. It all turns out well. At fadeout, Elvis gets all three girls and the scholarship...
...silver-spired churches taken on location around Windsor, Old Saybrook, Mystic and Essex. Audiences will also learn about tobacco-possibly more than they care to. Item: those acres of flimsy shade-tobacco tents (which don't quite obscure the dedicated dalliance of Troy and girl at the fadeout) are made of cheesecloth, which filters sunlight and raises the temperature around the plants by 15 degrees...
...hereditary. What was new was the annual Oscar awards' spectacular morbidity. The night dragged on as a kind of animated obituary, part Beverly Hills and part Forest Lawn, which, it was suggested, may reflect the advancing years of many Academy members and their inevitable preoccupation with the last fadeout...