Word: hoot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their sheets of cards. Occasionally a cheer will go up and cowbells will ring when someone yells "Bingo!" They scurry up, to a smattering of applause, to the platform in the center of the room to get their cash. If they don't scurry fast enough the other players hoot at them to hurry so they can get on with the game...
Whoever thought arms control could be a hoot? But this two-hander, based on the Geneva stroll of Soviet and U.S. negotiators, is Broadway's funniest new comedy...
Because of this, the six-inch actor found the work on "Dynasty" unstimulating. "Nobody works that hard and the material is sort of a hoot," he says. "I was more interested in golf and book reading than in what I was doing." Howard says a television series serves as a nice springboard for good-looking young actors and actresses as well as a "twilight song for various performers like John Forsythe, Barbara Stanwyck and Charlton Heston." But for an actor "in the middle" of his career, as he characterizes himself, such an undertaking seems stifling...
Fellow performers often giggled at the persona, but they liked the man. Said Shirley MacLaine: "Lee's a hoot. He always gives a good show." Edie Adams concurred: "He was outrageous when outrageous wasn't cool. He was a little kid and nice to be around, on or off the stage." He often suggested that he enjoyed special spiritual grace, and some fans concluded he had faith- healing powers. But when he died at home last week after a brief hospitalization, he was best known as a synonym for glorious excess. After an aborted attempt in 1958 at a button...
...raucous, untidy narrative. He has written two previous novels--An Ice-Cream War, set in World War I, and A Good Man in Africa, a comedy that takes place in a former British possession. Both are more controlled and disciplined. Beside them, Stars and Bars is something of a hoot, based as much on the garbled America of TV as the real thing. Boyd is fine as long as he stays in New York City. In the South his story tends to unravel, and the picaresque incidents verge on cartoons. There are, however, some sharp observations of Dixie speech ("Each...