Word: gutless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...himself, spoke a few lines and hung up. Stories about his temper, Cuomo said, are way out of date. He takes criticism far less personally now. He has stopped calling to complain to writers; these days it causes too much commotion. But anonymous criticism still angers him. "These gutless wonders," said the ostensibly better-controlled Cuomo, getting worked up at the thought. "They're like shadows. How do you fight them...
...piece on the Black C.A.S.T. production of "For Colored Girls..." was the shittiest excuse for a review that I have ever read. At least the reviewer had the common sense not to sign his name to a review of a show that he obviously did not see. Hang that gutless worm out to dry if you hope to save what little credibility your paper has left. Suzanne L. Griffith...
...weak." During their fourth collaboration. All the President's Men, Redford refused to entrust Goldman with his home phone number. Then, out of jealousy for co-star Dustin Hoffman's character, he demanded that Goldman write in a love interest for him; and, in what Goldman justifiably terms a "gutless betroyal," Redford allowed Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron to write a completely different draft behind Goldman's back. (P.S., Goldman's was not only the script that was used, but it also won the screenplay Oscar, a fact he neglects to mention.) If this is how Hollywood friends operate, imagine...
...wouldn't give me his phone number." This was before Redford invited him to look over a second screen play of the same book, written without Goldman's knowledge by Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron. The author recalls Redford's request as "a gutless betrayal...
...House reluctantly followed suit. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte sneered at the Senate: "You got a bunch of fat cats up there raking in the big bucks. They can be big statesmen because they can collect those big honoraria." Utah Senator Jake Garn gibed that House members were "just as gutless" for retreating on their tax deductions...