Word: fussbudget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stan is a fussbudget; either you do things right or you make no attempt is the way Stan sees the world. He rehearsed his band for ages before he took it public. And when he finally did, it blew the public's hat in the creek, which is to say the band cooked, dig? It was tight. And it is not a stretch to say Stan Spiro and the Townsmen Orchestra came on like a train, to liken them to the Chattanooga Choo Choo...
...entire one had to squint. Drawn in 1791, it was Pierre L'Enfant's original layout of Washington. And here and there on the document, bleached so faint by time that the eye could not make out the words, were criticisms scribbled by the era's most brilliant fussbudget, Thomas Jefferson...
Hoffman is a truly demonic fussbudget, who must pull any character he plays out of his own memories, experiences and emotions, which means that he has precious little objectivity about his creations. "I can't act a moral," says Hoffman. "The best I can do is speak personally, not say this is the way it is, or should be, but this is true of me." In the film, Michael says he knows what it is to be a woman precisely because he is an actor. "An actor waits by the phone," he cries; "he has no power when...
...Hazel (1961-66), a normal middle-class family can find, afford and need a servant-and not because the mother is working or has more than one child. In The Odd Couple (1970-75), two men of a certain age can live together, in traditional masculine-slob and effeminate-fussbudget roles, without an automatic assumption that they are homosexual...
...wisecracking panelist on NBC's The Hollywood Squares; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Lynde's cheerfully prissy manner and arch responses to game-show questions won him five Emmy nominations and a wide daytime following. As an actor, he played a befuddled fussbudget who delivered witticisms in the face of disaster in the stage and film versions of Bye, Bye Birdie and more than a dozen hapless Hollywood comedies...