Word: newswoman
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...meaning and morality of political events. Bui ironically it is Ihe senseless death of the newsman who expresses these sentiments (Gene Hackman in a well-judged performance, not too cynical, not too idealistic) that turns Price into a Sandinista sympathizer. He takes with him into the rebel camp the newswoman both men love. And since Joanna Cassidy brings such attractive intelligence to her role, one's first impulse is to accept without protest Ihe film's ambiguous climax...
...salacious twist. The word censored in the title was intended to turn viewers into video voyeurs. The host, Dick Clark, slick and eternally adolescent, sniggered as clips were shown of an elephant's trunk probing a zoo warden's crotch and an overly affectionate orangutan tweaking a newswoman's breast.. On a clip from Hollywood Squares, the late Paul Lynde replied to a question about what can make a monkey cry: "Learning that Tarzan swings both ways." This was hardly a blooper, and considering the double-entendres that Lynde regularly got away with, it is hard...
Daryll Deaver (Hurt) is the night man in a Manhattan office tower; Tony Sokolow (Weaver) is the TV newswoman with whom Daryll has been conducting a one-way, cathode love affair. When they meet at the site of a murder in the building, and he professes knowledge of the crime, she determines to use him as cunningly as any Frank Capra reporter chasing a hot story on the way to falling in love. Daryll is disarmingly direct in telling Tony how much he loves her, has always loved her, and always will. His offer to wax the floors...
Enter Fonda in designer boots and jeans, caught in the TV newswoman syndrome for the second time in a year. She goes after the horse thief hoping for an obnoxiously good story; she winds up with the story and a few cozy nights with Redford under the Utah stars to boot...
...first Carter took the newsmen's repeated references to fellow Democrat Ted Kennedy with good humor. When a reporter made the increasingly common slip of referring to "President Kennedy," Carter responded with a grin: "I think it is Senator Kennedy." But when one young TV newswoman paraphrased a Kennedy criticism at considerable length, the President turned understandably testy. "Is this a campaign speech for him?" asked Carter. He then proceeded to give a pretty good campaign speech...