Word: griffness
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...whose body is rebuilt after a crash to make him a superman-and a super crimefighter. Since NBC put its long-running Western Bonanza out to pasture last year, Lome Greene has taken off his spurs. Next season he will don a business suit to play the star of Griff for ABC. In keeping with next fall's guns and chuckles accent, Griff will be a former cop turned private detective. Who knows? With a little luck, he may even track down a good show or two in what sounds like the most unpromising season in years...
...gentle or brutal, angry or mellow as the occasion demands. Taylor, an enormously skillful actor, seems to have a special understanding of parts like this, and Suzy Kendall brings to her role exactly the right look of soiled innocence. The two villains of the piece, freaky faggots named Griff (Robert Phillips) and Terry (William Smith), provide some of the nastiest screen violence so far this year. There's a brawl toward the end of the picture between McGee and one of the freaks that has not been matched, for pure furniture-smashing gusto, since Frank Sinatra took out after...
Twitchedy, twatchedy, flippedy, flappedy, flong your own thong tong, snickety poo. Griff, graff, gobble, gobble, ghrrr, gar, gorrr, goo goo goo. Wap, wap, flaptrap, wonk wonk weee. Zap, zap, backtrack, zonk zonk zeee. Wish I may, wish I might have the wish I wish tonight...
...Hero Griff (Gryffydd) seems at first blink to be just another Lucky Jim type of intellectual spiv-on-the-make. He even makes faces at himself like his famous prototype and is obsessively concerned with the impression he produces in important people (it is usually unfortunate: he wears his first dinner jacket to a cocktail party). But this novel tells not of successful spivery but of a village innocence doggedly preserved amid fleshpots and sophistries-although the fleshpots are rather lean and the sophistries baffling only to Griff, the simple mathematician. Lydia Kilmartin, Eng. Lit., "smashing figure," is probably...
This common type of aggressive intellectual tease is new to Griff, but he is happily prepared to be teased-until she goes too far. In a lecture, "Religion or Eroticism," Lydia indulges in pseudo-Freudian persiflage on all Griff's favorite hymns. "Bloody blasphemous cow," he thinks, and tells her off in strong valley language. It is a compelling story so far-both gay and dismal. But Novelist Gallic will not let Griff welsh on his Welsh-ness : she wants him to win. In the end, the stage seems set for a true marriage of mathematics and letters...