Word: flunkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each goes off to his respective misery: Miya becomes the chattel of her husband and his mistress, and Kan-ichi a flunkey for "the notorious female loan-shark Akagashi." They are reunited only after Kan-ichi loses his money and Miya attempts suicide. The world, in this case, is well lost...
Comments ranged from "Excelsior!" to "Pshaw." One high-ranking Administration flunkey said only, "Plunk yore magic twanger, Froggie...
...character, the sick suitor played by George C. Scott, is in the process of being clarified. "One of the problems of it is that if he's that cukey, you've got to let the audience know. I wrote in a flunkey for him. (Y'know, all rich men have a flunkey.) ...So that he could reveal his neurosis to the audience, you know, and not to the family...
...Fred Allen once remarked, "the horrors, of unskilled labor." Producer lays it on the line: sign the contract or go to jail (for the hit-and-run killing of a girl, committed while the star was driving drunk-a rap that was taken for him by a studio flunkey). Star signs...