Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bluntest instrument of them all is a Los Angeles broadcaster named Joe Pyne, who has become simultaneously the industry's hottest property and, as New York Times Critic Jack Gould recently said, its "ranking nuisance." On his interview shows, Pyne often addresses callers and guests as "stupid," "jerk" or "meathead." An epileptic was once asked: "Just why do you think people should feel sorry for you?" Pyne's standard lines run from "Go gargle with razor blades" to "Take your teeth out, put 'em in backwards and bite your throat." Says Pyne of himself...
...offers while waiting for the machine's verdict, says bitterly: "It's one thing to have been a bad actress, which I know I wasn't, or to have someone like the producer tell me he didn't like me. But why should some jerk they dragged in off the street have the right to push a button and say whether or not I should play in the series?" Veteran Producer Herbert (The Defenders) Brodkin wonders: "How you would enjoy a Broadway show if at every moment you were conscious of having to push a button...
Bogart in John Huston's "Across the Pacific," and two rare Buster Keaton shorts: "The Paleface," and the "Soda Jerk...
...Sucker is a car-crazy, crime-happy French farce that never stops long enough to be ticketed for its frequent wrong turns. In the title role, France's mononymic comedian Bourvil has too much worldly charm and intelligence to make a convincing jerk, yet he is hilarious all the same as he takes a sexy Roman manicurist to dinner and absently dips his fingers in a water glass when she asks to hold his hand...
Actually, if they had kept O'Hara long enough, editors would have discovered that he was impeccably impartial. He was simply a scold in spats. "We are living in the Age of the Jerk," he wrote in one of his last pieces. "The manifestations of Jerkism are all over the place and limited to no class or race. It is Jerkism when Negro hoodlums loot a shoe store. It is Jerkism when Ivy League types commit vandalism at a debutante party, and Jerkism when Bronx teenagers drop down to the Yankee Stadium outfield and steal Mickey Mantle...