Word: lancasterism
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BURT LANCASTER appeared one evening in a terry-cloth robe at a back door in a well-trimmed New York suburban neighborhood. "Are you the lady of the house?" he asked. "May I have a vodka martini?" He got it. See SHOW BUSINESS.
The swimming pool is empty except for a man who is drifting around in an inner tube, a martini glass in his hand, a party hat on his head. He is stoned. Into the pool plop Neddy Merrill and a bikinied blonde. They shake the man awake. "Know what day...
Hydrophobia He-Man. The producers chose the Connecticut location, says Director Frank Perry (David and Lisa), chiefly because it matches Cheever's Eastern setting. Hollywood pools are not right anyway. Burt Lancaster, for example, has a little $30,000 layout in Bel Air, with a heating system, a waterfall...
By the time shooting was ready to begin last month, the producers had chosen most of the private pools for Lancaster's swimathon. The homeowners went along for fees of about $500 a day and assurance that the film crews would use mobile toilet facilities and not go traipsing...
Hush Money. Apart from pool rentals, the studio enriched the Connecticut economy in several other ways. A buzz-saw operator whose activities were marring the sound track was paid $200 to knock it off for the day. This in turn sent everybody and his mother out into the yards for...