Word: gangsterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 20,000 odometered miles later, the Rolls turns up in Genoa. Climbing aboard are a U.S. gangster (George C. Scott) and his moll (Shirley MacLaine), both battling Scenarist Terence Rattigan's notion of dialogue for ugly Americans. "So it leans," cracks Shirley at the tower of Pisa. The fun picks up when Scott returns to the States to eradicate a business associate, leaving his two snazzy chassis in the care of Bodyguard Art Carney. On a swimming expedition, Shirley and the Rolls are left unguarded just long enough to entertain Alain Delon, utterly persuasive as a gigolo...
...officials notified the Cambridge Police, since the student had violated state and federal laws. They were also concerned for his safety, because he reported being threatened repeatedly by his source. One University official described the marijuana source as "a gangster with bad connections...
Crack Up the Cars. Anhalt has since turned out two scripts for Elvis Presley, a Western, two comedies (Wives and Lovers and Boeing, Boeing) and, for Paramount, Affair in Arcady ("I call it an original because the novel was about a Chicago gangster turned Virginia farmer and the screenplay was about the late dictator of Iraq, Kassem"). He has just completed a TV script, A Time for Killing, with George C. Scott (Bob Hope Chrysler Theater, April 30), and is working on The Cruel Sport, a screen script about "the morality of Grand Prix racing...
...Heiress polluted by Deborah's guileful malevolence; The Alger Dream of self-made empires gone rotten in her father's diabolic machinations; The Westerner Dream of the loner on the borderlines of society perverted now by the company he must keep; The Dreams of the Con Man, The Urban Gangster, The White Negro (a myth Mailer helped himself to make) all corrupted, immeasureably soiled by the evil of our national life until there are tenable dreams no longer but only the will, and the courage if not the strength to escape to Guatamala or Yucatan...
...Playwright Simon says Matthau is "the greatest instinctive actor I ve ever seen " He has turned in impeccable, widely varied performances as a sardonic sheriff in Lonely Are the Brave, a show-stopping jealous Hungarian husband in Goodbye Charlie, the heavy in Charade, and a phrase-chomping gangster in Who's Got the Action, and he picked up a 1962 Tony Award as Broadwav's best supporting actor his haughty portrayal of a French aristokrat in A Shot in the Dark But until Odd Couple, the lead role had always escaped him. Instead, he has done everything else...