Word: pal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Which Way But Loose. Eastwood's Philo Beddoe is an amiable auto mechanic who hulks through the West saving damsels in distress and giving big bullies savage whuppings, the sound effects of which they will never forget. His menagerie includes a dotty ma (Ruth Gordon), a slow-witted pal (Geoffrey Lewis), a not-entirely-trustworthy girlfriend (Sondra Locke), a bumbling gang of neo-Nazi motorcyclists and an orangutan named Clyde, who steals the show with animal athletics and a vocabulary of obscene grimaces. Eastwood, who can be a compelling, charming screen actor, seems content here to watch the other...
...though, that made the Skunk Works an air-age legend. When the first U-2s were being built, Chief Designer Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson and his team worked overtime and got whatever they wanted. After he told his old pal Air Force General Jimmy Doolittle, then at the Shell Oil Co., that he needed a fuel that would not boil off at the low pressures of the upper atmosphere, Shell scientists produced a special low-boil, kerosene-type fuel just for Johnson's plane. Inevitably, it became known as Kelly's Lighter Fluid...
...needed very little help at all, beyond the occasional suggestion to play broadly. As usual, Ming the Merciless, Emperor of Mongo, is bent on destroying the earth and, failing that, making life as unpleasant as possible for Flash (Sam J. Jones), his girlfriend Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) and his pal Dr. Zarkov (Topol). The results of this obsession are colorful: large and small battles, peril to Dale's virtue ("Prepare her for my pleasure," intones Ming at one point), sundry bondage fantasies. The high points are a whip fight staged on a wildly tilting platform and a concluding conflict...
Sills' pal and fellow trouper. Leading the diva to center stage, Carol caroled: "Beverly here thought she could sneak out on us!" Fat chance. Thereafter, like sneak out Halloween treats, plus a few tricks, came star after star to celebrate Sills...
...went over to the Republican Herald Tribune. His column, "Today and Tomorrow," made him a celebrity; at its peak, it was carried by more than 200 papers and was considered required reading up and down the corridors of power. "Zip!" sang a stripper in the Broadway musical Pal Joey, "Walter Lippmann wasn't brilliant today." A series of TV interviews in the '60s exposed him to millions more who had never read...