Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Biden's mouth is both his greatest asset and his greatest liability. During a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year, Biden came across as a hothead seeking hot headlines as he relentlessly badgered Secretary of State George Shultz over U.S. policy toward South Africa. The day after, he approached a friend on the Senate floor and asked sheepishly, "How much do you think I lost on that? I guess I made a fool of myself...
...presumably, helped get audiences into the picture. But only word of mouth can get them to keep coming. They probably will, for The Untouchables has all the right lures: ripe violence, period flash and the triumph of good over venal. As De Palma puts it, "It's like a John Ford western. A good guy is on a mission and gets help. At the end he walks off into the sunset. It's a simple story told in a classical way." That might seem a bit too simple for De Palma, Mamet, De Niro and the other smart lads...
...Havana Cafe, went belly-up. For a while there the farmers shifted to the Standard Oil station down by the railroad -- now the Burlington Northern rather than the Great -- for morning coffee, but it got so crowded you couldn't curse a cat without getting a hair in your mouth, and finally somebody had to put their foot down. A town is not a town without a cafe, the farmers decided. Further, they decided to open their...
...poignance like an orphaned puppy, partly because modern plastic surgery makes the plot anachronistic, partly because, even with his Cyranose, C.D. is a darned sight more attractive than his beefy rival. Aaaahh, who cares, as long as Steve Martin gets a chance to strut his physical grace, wrap his mouth around clever dialogue, clamber up to rooftops like a Tarzan of the Northwest, give new life to the old-fashioned nobility of the love letter, and drink wine through his nose? "Party trick," he shrugs. It's a neat trick, being Steve Martin. He's so good; his movies will...
Interviewing Larry Guterman is like trying to yank wisdom teeth. It's hard enough to get him simply to talk about himself. It's virtually impossible to extract anything serious from his mouth...