Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lauren worked part time, accepting returned garments in a budget-price department store, to earn money to buy classically cut clothes at Manhattan's Brooks Bros. In his high school yearbook, Lauren confidently listed his ambition as "millionaire." The entry was a gag, he claims today, but his brother Jerry remembers that Ralph had a "constant urge to make something happen. He was always reaching for more...
...refining on film until he was satisfied, throwing out whole sequences or starting over when he wasn't. There are tantalizing scenes of the director at work (Chaplin getting exasperated with a bit player who has trouble shuffling cards) and some admirable detective work (a dangerous-looking sight gag in which an ax barely misses Charlie's foot was, it turns out, actually shot backward...
...description of what three of Vigeland's classmates did after graduating, moves through a long account of a sappy conversation with Robert "Children of Crisis" Coles, describes in soporific detail the schedule for the 25th reunion and the differences between the Red, Green and Grape groups, and shamelessly repeats gag-me-with-a-spoon comments like: "For reasons one can't understand, something goes out of here and affects a person, generates some pride and gratitude, generates a gift..."--and that from David A. Aloian '49, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association...
Valerie Harper, once TV's best-known neurotic single, is back in sitcomland as a housewife and mother of three boys in Valerie. Unfortunately, she spends more time milking gag lines than paying attention to the details of motherhood. When a youngster spills maple syrup all over the breakfast table, Mom yells convincingly but makes no move toward the table. Is there a mother on earth who would not be there with a sponge in two seconds flat? Of course, the gooey mess must stay in place so 16-year-old David (Jason Bateman...
Mammi is the whole show. Mammi is in every act, nearly every scene, and absolutely every gag in the movie. Mammi is everywhere...