Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trail of the Pink Panther. Peter Sellers died in July 1980. You'd think that would put an end to the profitable series of Pink Panther farces in which Sellers starred as the dithery Inspector Clouseau. But no. Writer-Director Blake Edwards has basted together seven "outtake" sequences with Sellers, scenes from other Pink Panther movies and some supporting footage from series regulars to produce what may be the cinema's first posthumous sequel...
DIED. Marty Robbins, 57, Grand Ole Opry pop country singer, who wrote more than 500 tunes about gunfighters, unrequited love and even occasionally the constancy of women, including the million-copy-selling hits El Paso and A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation; of a heart attack; in Nashville...
...expectations, including his own. Before the operation, Clark had told his son Stephen that he did not expect the surgery to succeed. By week's end, however, Dr. Peterson reported that Clark "had gone from a man who was blue from not enough oxygen before surgery to being pink." He was also talking, moving his arms and legs and, thanks to a stalwart plastic heart, beginning to enjoy a life on borrowed time...
...drunk hard liquor since a boozy period at the beginning of the '70s when he was shooting Sometimes a Great Notion). A daily sauna and a three-mile run seem to take care of the beer. His thick, curly white hair is short, his face is pink and lightly lined, his eyes are shut. He is driving the race in his head, plotting how to steal tenths of a second from a Triumph TR8 driven by a rival named Ken Slagle...
ONLY THE RED BULL and a few other downright evil characters show glimpses of animated genius. Every detail of the red-pink bull steams with uncontrollable evil--especially the transparency of its imposing body. Two peripheral characters--Captain Cully the peg-legged pirate cat and a pile of bones forming a distorted skeleton--momentarily memorize the audience, as doss the terrifying flying beast Harpy, the evil counterpart of the unicorn. Otherwise, a dearth of fluid detail hampers the illusion...