Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever playing trivia and someone asks for the corniest lines you've ever heard, try the following: Girl (approaching an actor she has seen only on the screen): I love you. Actor: Give me two minutes and I'll love you right back...
DIED. John Franklin Wharton, 83, lawyer, author (Life Among the Playwrights) and inventive behind-the-scenes presence on Broadway; of emphysema; in Manhattan. As a member and founder of the prestigious law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, Wharton had a variety of businesses for clients. His longtime love of the theater and entrepreneurial genius made him an imaginative adviser and friend of producers, playwrights and songwriters. In 1938 he helped form the Playwrights Producing Co., which gave its member-writers (Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood and others) control over their own works through bypassing producers. More recently Wharton...
...begin to blow up cars in his tranquil Seville neighborhood. A waiter at his favorite restaurant serves him a martini containing a huge fly. His butler, ordinarily a paragon of civility, starts to give him Up. Somehow Mathieu remains untouched by all these shenanigans, but then he falls in love with Conchita, a ravishing young virgin. Though Conchita professes to adore Mathieu with an ardor equal to his own, she will not go to bed with him-and will not say why. Such torture is more than even Mathieu can take: slowly he surrenders to the chaos that presses...
...courage to take Marcie by the hand, leaving behind all the embarrassments of associating himself with such a "naive" woman. "She's a lot smarter than you ever gave her credit for," Stanley lectures, pointing to her innocent wisdom which paved the way to Tim's discovery of his love...
While all the various-and-sundry-ness of Joslin's life and love have somehow made the movie an artistic, cohesive statement, they have also made it a very loose confederation. Let us hope that in his next film Joslin will first be brave enough to make the statement he sets out to make, and, second, will not feel he has to tie all the loose ends of his life and work together in just one bundle...