Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have come up from the bottom and made their money the hard way their fancy bathrooms. But on the other hand I cannot help wondering if these people have paid their fair share of taxes. Also I have a question: How do you clean a washbowl lined with gold leaf...
...When Dugger fell down in the 440 hurdles, I thought I hadn't been living right," said head coach Bill McCurdy. "I started looking for four leaf clovers, but there was no grass growing in the Stadium...
Anyone defining schlemiel and schlimazel should consult a Yiddish lexicon or A New Leaf. Traditionally, a schlemiel is a person who spills the soup; a schlimazel is the one on whom he spills it. In this film the schlemiel is Henrietta (Elaine May). The schlimazel is Henry (Walter Matthau...
...wastrel learns to endure her and discover the joys of financial management. That leaves Henry with something of a vocation, but it does not leave the audience with much of a picture. Once the laughs subside, the project, like Henry's old wallet, is bare. A New Leaf may be the first film in which Matthau is miscast. He retains his unique webfooted shuffle, and still sends home his jokes special delivery. But his astringent lines ("That woman is not primitive, she is feral") belong on the palate of a George Sanders or a Clifton Webb...
Perhaps the most damning analysis of A New Leaf comes from none other than Elaine May herself-by way of her lawyer: "a cliché-ridden, banal story ... It will be a disaster if the film is released." The trouble, claims the Star-Director-Writer, is not the performances, direction or scenario. It is the studio. Paramount, she claims in a fat 14-point complaint, took her black comedy away from her and "advised me ... that the film released would be that as cut and edited by Fritz Steinkamp, a Hollywood editor, and Robert Evans, a vice president of Paramount...