Word: fooled
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Asked what his idea of good, clean fun was, Champi said, "running along the bank of the river making a fool of myself." Dowling said it was "taking a nice warm bath...
...light his cigarette, a bobby "reached forward and politely struck flame from his lighter." The police, she reports, "even joined the demonstrators in singing Auld Lang Syne." All in all, "we witnessed in the Demo something like a medieval carnival in modern setting, with everybody changing places, the fool becoming king for a day, the police merging with the populace...
...FACT, AN ACCOMPLISHED FOOL...
...first film, a travelogue of Cambridge called Sinister Madonna, I directed the actors from a shooting script, each scene described in detail with the exception of one which read: "Kyle sits down at his desk, removes a single-edge razor blade from a drawer, and carves the word FOOL into his wrist. Cut to... etc., etc." Occasionally during the first months of production Steve Lerner, the lead, would ask me how I intended to fake it. Finally the night before the scheduled filming, I revealed my ace in the hole--namely that we weren't going to fake...
When I had done it previously, having aspired to amateur calligraphy in High School, it had taken me about five minutes to carve the FOOL into my arm; Steve, having had no such aspirations, finished the job in twenty seconds flat. Well here we were--not nearly enough blood, forty seconds of film instead of six minutes, no scene whatsoever. Throwing caution to whatever one throws caution to, we tactfully suggested to Steve that he cut a little deeper into the barely perceptible lines. Realizing the essential humor of the situation, he proceeded to re-carve the word, patiently going...