Word: lecher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Naturally, Elvira disrupts the town's entire existence, turning the head of every repressed lecher in Fallwell and turning fun-starved teens against their parents faster than you can say "Footloose." She also discovers that she has magical powers that rival Uncle Vinnie's the exercise of which lead to the inevitable burning-at-the-stake scene at the end of the movie...
...gruesome comedy. Rich, handsome Simon Longworth sneaks away to Paris for a weekend with his secretary. They are swanning around Fontainebleau when they encounter his wife's two best friends, both of whom believe that the Longworths, alone among their acquaintances, have a happy marriage. Can Simon, experienced lecher that he is, handle this? Certainly not. Rushing toward doom, he reasons that if he has managed to pull the wool over his wife Richeldis' eyes for 20 years, why not try to convince Monica and Belinda that they are blind...
George Gaynes as the incompetent actor playing the doctor in "Southwest General" is outrageously funny. His role as the soap's lecher amusingly extends to his real life as he tries to reduce Tootsie And Charles Durning as Julie's father who falls in love with Dorothy gives an equally effective performance although his emotions are much more low key and subtle. His courtship of Dorothy is believable as we see his affections for her develop. And we empathize with his distress at finding out that Dorothy is only a man in disguise...
...this drunken lecher with insolent ambitions had the power to make troubled people feel better-to lighten souls, as De Jonge puts it. Animals and children loved him. In his own way he wanted to be what the Tsar and Tsarina believed him to be: the savior of Holy Russia. But even if Rasputin had been an angel, he would have been too late. "A kind of frenzy has seized people," Princess Catherine Radziwill wrote in 1913. Russia had turned into a "very large lunatic asylum" of manic searchers, from table-tapping spiritualists to bomb-tossing anarchists. The whole country...
...Lecher...