Word: misbegottens
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...Other Strangers led to her dim Godfather experience, and later she was funny in a bad Elliott Gould movie, Harry and Walter Go to New York, and then funny in a good Elliott Gould movie, I Will, I Will ... For Now. Last year she was delightful in a misbegotten Broadway comedy, The Primary English Class...
...part doesn't demand all that much besides wide-eyed innocence, with an appropriate burst of emotion. Spradlin turns in a solid performance as the fiendish coach, and O'Toole is passable as the lover. The worst thing about the film is a pitiful score written by that misbegotten little nitwit, Paul Williams, and performed by those masters of Muzak, Seals and Crofts...
...Over at the New York Times, the Bay of Pigs lesson was well learned. At President Kennedy's personal request, the Times did not print what it knew in advance of the invasion, only to be told afterward by a rueful Kennedy that had the story been published, the misbegotten adventure would have been canceled. The news suppression that angered Bradlee most was the bombing of Cambodia: "The people who were being bombed knew it, the Godless Commies knew it, only the American people didn't. In almost 20 years in a decision-making seat, I've heard lots...
...Harry Truman. They were all gathered together on location outside Hamburg for a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV special entitled "Truman at Potsdam." "Truman was an honest, practical man of little intrigue," observed Flanders, best known for his 1974 Tony Award-winning role in A Moon for the Misbegotten. "I just had to stand up straight." Houseman, who won a 1973 Academy Award for his supporting role in The Paper Chase, learned to smoke cigars for his portrayal of Churchill and then picked up some of Winnie's other mannerisms as well. "By Potsdam, he stooped a lot," observed...
...yard. He is building a sculpture in his kitchen. He calls it "lobster pot" and it is destined for a spot in the OCS-OCL, library, Lobster Pot is a nexus of three pier-like beams jutting up from the floor and plastered with wooden slats that look like misbegotten orange crates. Lobster Pot is ugly, but Fisher's visitor doesn't know...