Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WATCH Cannon. I organize my social calender around it. It is as well made as any number of movies, and it is consistently well made. Wednesday's episode suffered a bit from banality, but is sure had everything else. The fat man is my idea of a detective, and the media barons have improved on standard fare, by making their detective overweight, leisurely, and in no particular need of the work. There is much Philip Marlowe in what remains, though. Frank Cannon is direct, dry and witty. He also holds on to the Marlowe notion of moral involvement...
...produced. There's no arguing its significance in the study of the country's end of the century culture. That's the final point. Cannon is no more than a further extension of characters that began with Natty Bumppo. He simply moves well in a mechanized society. The fat man is worth arranging your week around...
...looks like a pretty big, fat settlement, but I haven't heard anybody saying it's a package we can't live with...
...ricksha pulled by five of the ample girls he refers to as "bosom buddies." He presented Billie Jean with a large Sugar Daddy sucker ("for the biggest sucker in the world"); the stunt had Billie Jean's full cooperation, since it reportedly earned each a fast fat $20,000. King responded by giving Bobby a live baby pig, appropriately named Larimore Hustle...
...well be uniformly good: Richard Cox (as Bob, the early freak who serves as the play's hero), Carol Williard (Kathy, his girlfriend, who moves out at the end of the second act and comes back for a final conversation after everyone else moves out), and Kenneth McMillan (the fat landlord, who informs the students that their "openness" is going to "save this fucking country" but whose putative benevolence doesn't keep him from keeping their deposit) seem to be best, but this may be just because they have the best parts. John Pasquin directs well, and William F. Matthews...