Word: locust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Locust, 2:30, 7:15 and Brother Sun, Sister Moon...
...already stolen: characterization from Laurel and Hardy, a plot unembellished from a basic list of Most Popular Themes, dialogue from the stock lines of period scripts, style and method from 20's and 30's vaudeville, and even a set which is unmistakably from The Day of the Locust. Stealing is fine if the director is respectful or even reasonably restrained (in which cases it is called homage), but here the pieces are so obvious and so carelessly jumbled that they leave us unsure exactly what Nichols added himself...
...Cooper, a percussionist, is removed from the display case, its ownership is contested by a woman dressed in a Saint Laurent original who loudly protests Elton's locust-like purchasing. "I saw that yesterday and I said I was actively interested," she says, scowling at Elton. But with $7,000 worth of merchandise on the block, the men of Cartier ignore her protest. "Being interested," smiles Elton as he signs a check, "is not the same as buying...
...actress in Hollywood. She has just finished her sixth movie in the past two years, and last week she began work on her seventh, Alfred Hitchcock's Deceit. She has not sought out safe, sympathetic parts. She has played the teasing Faye Greener in The Day of the Locust, the honky-tonk waitress Rayette Dipesto in Five Easy Pieces, the low-down and libidinous Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby, and the victimized Monkey in Portnoy's Complaint. Right now she is within hailing distance of being what she calls "a first-rank star...
...Like The Day of the Locust, Worse than the movie of The Day of the Locust," No hopes for Tony C. could hold this crowd much longer--school was out, as far as they were concerned, and even in the year of busing and boycotts I guess that called for something special. Admission to the ballpark, at least...no pretzel vendor, not even the sunniest Opening Day sky, was going to hold them out in the street much longer...