Word: housebroken
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...population of the lonely, itinerant or freaked out. "We're everyone's straight friend," he says. "I love the fact that my household is beautifully run. But I need chaos too, so I live near the ocean or the wilderness. I have a mortal fear of being housebroken...
Losing to Master Handicapper Riggs, in fact, is almost fun. Depending on the competition, he will play while being tied to his doubles partner, while holding a poodle on a leash ("It's harder if the dog isn't housebroken"), while running around four chairs placed on his side of the court, or wearing an overcoat or carrying a pail of water. One estimate puts Riggs' lifetime betting take at $500,000. Says he: "I'm the best money player ever...
...does not actually appear in Elvis on Tour, his influence is strongly felt. Thus, although it is supposed to be a documentary, most of the movie's scenes seem as spontaneous as the Sadlers Wells Ballet. The concert footage is sweaty and lifeless, the music a combination of housebroken rock and soul-less gospel...
Charles Bronson, who resembles a housebroken Attila the Hun, stars as the vocal and murderous Valachi. An American by birth, Bronson played a lot of character roles in movies like The Great Escape before becoming a star in Europe, where his poignant struggle with polysyllables is presumably lost in translation. The Valachi Papers, shot almost totally in Rome, is in English, a bad break for Bronson, worse luck for the scenarist and the rest...
...none of the wrenchings of personal loss and religious crisis found in The Blood of the Lamb. There are no ghastly satirical accidents or bizarre deaths, such as befall the poet in Reuben, Reuben who hangs himself in an orthopedic harness. In Mrs. Wallop, the grotesque is thoroughly housebroken by De Vries' mastery of the instruments of parody. Literary styles and genres are lampooned, and holy cows milked. But Mrs. Wallop is really a response to the literary mother knockers, from Euripides (Medea) to Philip Roth (Portnoy's Complaint...