Word: flim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charges by festooning the locker room with little homilies: THERE IS ONLY ONE YARDSTICK IN OUR SPORT AND THAT IS WINNING-SECOND PLACE IS LIKE KISSING YOUR SISTER. While a few players do not wholly buy his pitch, most agree with Center Len Elmore: "Lefty's the flim-flam man. It's a confidence game with him, but you buy it because he's honest about it." Now 41, Driesell is too busy chasing the national championship and overseeing sundry enterprises-the Lefty Driesell Insurance Agency, the Lefty Driesell steakhouse, the Lefty Driesell summer basketball camp...
...flim. McKay is in the Senate. If you were to make a film The Sena or how do you think Mckay would...
...Picture Show, sampling scenes from movies of the forties, including "The Maltese Falcon," "Sergeant York," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," "The Great Dictator," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Cover Girl," "Pride of the Marines," and the Bogart classic "Casablances." Flim clips are followed by interviews with Ingrid Bergman and Robert Mitchum. The political pressures of the era are discussed by directors John Huston and Frank Capra: and writers Dalton Trumbo and Albert Maltz who were both black-listed at the time. 7:30, May 20. Chan...
...fellow actors often express admiration for Scott because he has the courage to risk professional failures. His characterization of Mordecai Jones, the aging but still canny Flim-Flam Man, was too strongly derivative of W.C. Fields, and his performance as Antony in Antony and Cleopatra was a self-proclaimed disaster. "I should have played Cleopatra," he says; Antony is one of the few roles beyond his ambition. "The great danger with most actors," he says, "is that the more successful they become, the less risk they will take with their careers. They forget why they became actors in the first...