Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There being no hope, apparently, of intelligent drama within the confines of this suddenly popular form, one would settle for a good how-to movie. The actors might as well be giving us some odd or useful information instead of straight-face lines like "Did you leave a cigarette burning?" as clouds of smoke roll into a room. It would be interesting to know, for instance, why the fire develops in such an erratic manner, hitting some floors brutally, then skipping ten or 20 before breaking out again. One would like to learn, as well, the larger strategic considerations that...
...fence knows his mark. "Nine out of ten people got larceny," he explains, "maybe even 99 out of 100 ... If the price is right and a man can use the merchandise, he's gonna buy." During World War II, Swaggi parlayed his philosophy of man into a thriving odd-lot business that provided a "front" for a lucrative swag mart that soon was fencing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of hot goods a year-virtually unimpeded by the police. In more than 30 years as a fence, Swaggi, 60, has spent only eight months in jail...
...been done to their original. Dialogue that should crackle like a telegraph has been slowed to the listless deliberation of a traffic cop writing out a ticket. Jack Lemmon makes a curiously enervated Hildy, and Walter Matthau's Burns is a shambling cynic too similar to his Odd Couple characterization for comfort...
...scene or it may be shortly after, when Hildy spits out a bit of Wilder-Diamond dialogue and Carol Burnett goes into a strident impersonation of a cut-rate hooker, that the movie curdles. But the thought occurs very early on that the latest The Front Page is an odd place to find Billy Wilder. The sap and the snap are gone...
Schumann-Heink or Frank Sinatra. Alsop, 64, was quick to dispel any such notion. Said Joe: "I'm engaged in writing a kind of summing-up series of columns, trying to compress 40-odd years in a few thousand words before I get the hell out." "Personally, I like sex, and I don't care what a man thinks of me as long as I get what I want from him -which is usually sex." Actress Valerie Perrine's candor, revealed in an interview with New York Times Reporter Judy Klemesrud, may not attract many serious suitors...