Word: lamming
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Eight on the Lam offers Bob Hope the ultimate insult: it assumes that he needs comic relief. As a meekling bank teller, Bob finds himself unjustly accused of rifling the tills and takes to the hills with his seven momless moppets and their inevitable mongrel. A fair enough premise for a one-man vehicle, but Hope is almost lost in a cast of characters that includes a slopstick baby sitter (Phyllis Diller) and her detective boy friend (Jonathan Winters), mouthing a script that contains relentless japes about little boys' bladders and big girls' figures...
After nine days off the air and on the lam, Johnny Carson came home to NBC. All was forgiven. Johnny was for givin' NBC the benefit of his presence if NBC was for givin' him the present of their benefits-that is, a lot more cash and a little more say-so over who runs the Johnny Carson show Tonight...
...flick, a comedy called The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, calls for the heroine to play a swinging East German lady decathlon champ who decides to take it on the lam from that draggy country. Zoom!-she pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall. To get in shape for the part, Actress Elke Sommer, 25, has been tearing around the U.C.L.A. athletic field. "I consider myself very athletic," said Elke, who certainly did look in nice form as she took the low hurdles. For the Wall-vaulting sequence, though, the studio will use a stuntman made up to look like Elke...
...travel at night for fear of ambush, and informed about the standoffish peasants' social and religious taboos. The most arduous aspect of the course was learning the language from three Vietnamese instructors (heo is pig, bap is corn, ga is chicken, and farmer is a tongue-twisting nguoi lam ruong). Kiddingly, the agents asked their Vietnamese teachers how to say "I surrender"-and were haughtily ignored by the tough former army men. After 450 hours of study, the volunteers feel they have barely grasped the hang of basic Vietnamese. Yet it is their language capability, plus their specialized knowledge...
CULDESAC. A comedy of terrors with Donald Pleasence playing a flabby old fool of a husband to Françoise Dorléac's snippy little chippy who lusts for excitement-and finds it when a mobster-on-the-lam (Lionel Slander) staggers into their home...