Word: moe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advantage of animal flicks is the cheapness of casting; the average cost of the pictures is only about $1,000,000. "Since it takes only 21 days for a rat to have a litter of ten to twelve, we bought a dozen and left it up to them," says Moe Di Sesso, the trainer for Willard and Ben. By the time the company "of The Night of the Lepus arrived on location in Arizona, its rabbit contingent had increased by more than 10% and was about to rise again...
Died. Morris ("Moe") Berg, 70, superintellect of big league baseball; in Belleville, N.J. After graduating from Princeton with honors in 1923, Berg signed on for a summer with the Brooklyn Dodgers to finance a trip to Europe. Despite his mediocre bat (.243 lifetime average), he stayed in the game for 19 years, the last seven as catcher and coach for the Boston Red Sox. In the offseason he also became fluent in ten languages, studied at the Sorbonne, and picked up a law degree at Columbia University. Berg quit baseball in 1942 and served as an OSS agent in Nazi...
Nibble on People. Most audiences root for the rats, sometimes yelling a resounding "Right on, Ben!" when he leads the cast of hundreds in the charge on Willard. Moe Di Sesso, a wildlife trainer who works out of the San Fernando Valley, spent a full year assembling, casting and coaching Ben, Socrates and the others. "As soon as a rat was born we'd start handling it," Di Sesso explained. "Then we taught it to do specific things...
When not pioneering new items, Frederick's offers old ones with frills, such as panties with embroidered messages ("eeny, meeny, miny, moe, this is as far as you can go") and see-through wisps of nightgowns, designed to be torn off ("elastic straps and neckline are made to G-I-V-E with the action...