Word: pert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...career she calls "mid-Atlantic": she has starred both in English films and with Michael York in last year's Hollywood science-fiction fantasy Logan's Run. Now comes Equus, Sidney Lumet's film of the long-running Broadway psychodrama. Jenny, 24, plays a pert stablehand who tries to seduce the troubled young patient of Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton). In the film, as on Broadway, that scene is played au naturel, which doesn't bother Jenny, since she considers it "necessary for the story." Says she: "As soon as you start covering up, as soon...
...true love was for him a casual affair. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and Noelle accordingly swears vengeance. Progressing from bedroom to bedroom, Noelle eventually becomes a famous actress or in a position to gain her revenge. By this time, Larry has married a pert American girl named Catherine and the audience has sat through another sequence of glossy romantic shots, this time in Washington. Noelle manages to hire Larry, recently out of work and desperate for a job, as the pilot of her private plane. She subjects him to one humiliation on top of another before...
...desert like some mustang of the legendary West - but it is no horse, only modern horse power gone loco. Driverless, with a diabolical will of its own, it invades a Utah town and mows down a bicycling couple, the sheriff and a passel of deputies and a pert young teacher. Among the other victims: plot, dialogue and characterization. Deputy Sheriff James Brolin leads the counterattack, but it is an unequal contest: the car steals all the scenes. The ancient nightmare of machines turning against their masters has in recent years become something of a staple of made-for-TV movies...
Segal and Fonda are resourceful per formers. Fonda, improbably pert and stylish even while cleaning out a cash drawer, is especially winning. But both are forced to work hard to keep the laughs coming. So hard, in fact, that it al most hurts...
Married. June Allyson, 53, pert, husky-voiced TV, stage and screen star (The Glenn Miller Story, Forty Carats); and David Ashrow, 55, a Ventura, Calif, dentist; both for the third time (Allyson's first husband was Actor Dick Powell); in Palm Springs, Calif...