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Bennett was a child of the Midland slums, the son of a domineering and ambitious pawnbroker father who eventually became a fairly prosperous solicitor. Handicapped by a stammer that in childhood made him jerk epileptically and bite the air, he grew up painfully shy and covered his shyness with the show-off's mantle. He was as frugal as a ragpicker, carefully kept a record of each shilling tip, constantly worried about money...
...avoid the never-even-saw-'em-CRASH! drivers, the fuzz locks you up as a menace to society. Admittedly, the Bermuda shorts set on their Japanese toys aren't too bright, but it still comes down to one thing: on a bike you have to expect every jerk on the road...
...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...