Word: heartbreaking
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...honeyed tongue to In Honeysuckle Time. Sex becomes a four-letter word when musky-voiced Lynnie Godfrey smolders through such numbers as Daddy and I'm Craving for That Kind of Love. Looking like an iridescent flapper from the '20s, Ethel Beatty makes Memories of You a heartbreak blues. Just about the entire cast puts sizzling bawdy English into If You've Never Been Vamped by a Brownskin, You've Never Been Vamped at All. Miss Aggie apparently taught Eubie more than he could ever forget...
...themes are mostly the Nashville perennials of hootch, heartbreak and hallelujah. But his best songs-chronicles of a tough, sensitive drifter-have a gritty conviction that comes from being unsparingly autobiographical. As Willie says, they are "songs that had to come out." The deep lines around Willie's surprisingly gentle brown eyes bear witness to a lot of hard days and even harder nights, and he sings about them with sentiment but no sentimentality, with pain but no self-pity. He celebrates their brief, boisterous pleasures, as in I Gotta Get Drunk...
...days, so why shouldn't Norman Lear? It must have been a dark afternoon in Beverly Hills when the producer dreamed up this sitcom. A dumb idea, indifferently executed, Apple Pie is easily the worst show ever from the Lear factory. It makes Hot I Baltimore look like Heartbreak House...
From a distant hill, the 40-mile-long multicolored ribbon, snaking through the Iowa cornfields, looks like the ultimate outdoor crazy sculpture. At hub and t-shirt level it turns out to be the American version of the Tour de France-sans hype, heartbreak, commercials, competition or prizes. It is the annual amateur week-long bicycle marathon from the Missouri to the Mississippi, as amiable a happening as any to be found...
...body of a southern California corporate hot shot, Leo Farnsworth, who has just been poisoned by his paranoid wife (played by the zaftig Dyan Cannon) and her lover, Farnsworth's eager-to-please private secretary, (Charles Grodin, the lovable shiksachaser who woos and wins Cybil Shepard in The Heartbreak Kid). Farnsworth turns out to be a particularly loathsome tycoon as he alternately comes under attack from both his adulterous wife and scheming secretary and from enviornmental protection groups protesting his multinational's unsafe and exploitative practices...