Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maybe. I played 'Amsterdam' for a good friend of mine; he was a merchant marine. When this guy gets misty-eyed, it's a real tribute to Brel (and to him, too). We're feeding and wining our audience, then singing to them about how the middle class gets fat and gets drunk. It's only half-serious, but it's half-serious...
There is one point in the play, however, when everything works--a screamingly funny scene in which the young doctor whom Argan intends for his daughter pays his first visit. Bill Fuller is short, fat and funny-looking, with a high-pitched voice and a great pair of pointed French eyebrows. His carefully rehearsed speeches to his prospective father-in-law and wife steal the scene, and some business he has with a glass of milk and Nestle's Quik is the high point of the show...
...less permanently in South Viet Nam-and cause the government serious problems for years, even if the invading army is pushed back. There was evidence last week of such infiltration around Saigon, Kontum and Hue. In one village south of An Loc, Communists distributed leaflets, then bought a fat pig and treated the entire village to a "Liberation Day" feast. Next morning, after the Communists left, someone reported their presence in the village, which shortly afterward was bombed, as the Communists probably expected. They thus converted one village to their side...
...whole Great Tradition of American cinema and any critical connection to social reality, if it was there with Hawks in the thirties, has long since disappeared. What's Up Doc? ends up as waspish a comedy as they come. Heroes are clean and Iowan, the villains are the fat, the sexually repressed, the foreign. Barbra Streisand doesn't even get to play a nice Jewish girl...
After placing a classified ad in which he makes himself out to be a second generation Sam Spade, Eddie-somewhat to his astonishment-gets a call for a job. He shows up at a local hotel, where he picks up a package from a fat man who resembles Falcon's Kasper Gutman (the Sidney Greenstreet character). Inside the package are a sizable bundle of money and a pistol. Eddie is plunged into a plot as intricate and confounding as The Big Sleep...