Word: lotharios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vain Lothario. Yet Jack preferred the format that had brought him recognition and riches. By the '50s, his TV program style-lifted bodily from the old radio days-had grown as rigid and formal as a state ceremony. Yet his fans never grew weary of the latter-day Scrooge...
...very silly, but Grodin, doing a total switch on his role in The Heartbreak Kid, is as funny as a schlemiel as he was as a Lothario; Bergen has never been more loose and natural; Mason is touching as a defeated man given a miraculous opportunity to close out life with a big win; and no less a figure than Sir John Gielgud is humorously on hand as the fussy manager of No. 11. This poised, stylish cast shines quite as impressively as the quarry in the vault. ∙Richard Schickel
Enjoying Life. Middle-aged Lothario might be more accurate. Lynda Day George, who acted with him in a recent TV movie of the week, observes: "When he finally relaxes and finds it isn't necessary to conquer every woman he meets, he'll begin to enjoy life more...
...commercials stress the theme that, though many people are reluctant to try it, they like it once they take the plunge. Their approaches range from the outrageous (a Latin dictator besieged in his palace by a howling mob demanding that he take a sip) to the smirking (a lothario urging an innocent girl to "come on" try it, while she purrs the puritan objection: "My parents." Not until the end of the commercial is it made entirely clear that they are talking about Dr Pepper...
...Bonnie" is Ulrike Meinhof, 37, a slim, tough-faced divorcee who was once the editor of the leftist monthly magazine Konkret. "Clyde" is Andreas Baader, 28, a personable art-school dropout, Lothario of sorts, and sometime student revolutionary. Accompanied by a fluctuating number of associates (as many as 23 at times), the Baader-Meinhof gang during the past two years has pulled a string of bank robberies and car thefts, and has had shootouts with police in half a dozen cities. The toll so far: one policeman killed and another seriously injured, two gang members killed...