Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safe. Although she is still married to Eddie Fisher, she is already well along into the waiting-up-nervously phase with Burton. If she gets too nervous, she can always consult one of Burton's friendly agents, Michael Wilding, who in his acting days was her second husband...
Novelist-Screenwriter Peter Viertel, who was once Ava's constant companion in Paris and Mexico during the filming of The Sun Also Rises some years ago, is also in Puerto Vallarta, since he is now the husband of Deborah Kerr, who is playing a Nantucket spinster in the film. Viertel is understandably wary of Ava, but he is also a little skittish with Director John Huston. He worked on the screenplay of Huston's African Queen and followed up with a novel called White Hunter, Black Heart, which was a thinly disguised, malicious portrait of Huston...
Before the divorce becomes final, husband and wife must meet once more to sort out a tangled income tax report, and of course a Joint 1040 leads smack into the subject of sex. Though already affianced to a socialite food faddist (Diane McBain), hubby chafes when an aging movie actor (Michael Rennie) begins to date his former mate. Everywhere that Mary goes, the ham is close behind. Nelson finally explodes-being the kind of guy, as Lawyer Hiram Sherman quips, "who thinks when he brings a book back to the library, it'll never go out again...
Knife in the Water begins against a feebly sunlit landscape in the lake region of Poland. A bored husband and wife are driving out for a day's sailing. They stop to pick up a brash young hitchhiker, whose insolence catalyzes their own hostility-and this three-cornered thriller quickly generates force. By the time they reach pierside, the two males are abristle, eying each other like cocks in a pit. "You're no match for me, but come aboard," taunts the older man. The boy accepts: "Ah, you want to carry on the game...
...game is an elemental struggle between the man who has it made (Leon Niemczyk) and the man who aches to make it (Zygmunt Malanowicz). Comfortably bourgeois, the husband flaunts his car, his boat, his radio, his sailing skill, his worldly outlook and his trimly bikini'd wife (Jolanta Umecka).* The young bohemian have-not counters with raw vitality and his skill with a virile-looking switchblade knife...