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...This may or may not put him ahead of the world's other ranking apprentice writer, Novelist Mickey Spillane. The crucial difference between the two is that Spillane writes for the paperbacks whereas Silliphant writes for television-a medium that devours prose the way a school of piranha devours a steer. Silliphant, along with four or five other apprentices in his own exalted income bracket, works 13 hours a day, seven days a week, feeding the cathode tube - with such astonishing success that he has become something of a legend in the trade. "Stirling Silliphant," says one producer...
...Yachts. The plot, florid and foolish by turns, concerns Madame Rosepettle and her young son (Andrew Ray), moneyed travelers who ply the international circuit from hotel to hotel, taking with them the stuffed remains of Mr. Rosepettle. A sort of Auntie Maim, Madame Rosepettle also has a cat-eating piranha fish, a couple of man-eating plants and a psychopathic hobby: she stalks lovers on the beaches at night and kicks sand into their faces. She keeps her son locked away from the world to guarantee his presence when she finally decides the direction in which his future greatness lies...
While the U.S. taxpayer goes through the $77 billion tax bite necessary to feed the new federal budget, he stands to be nibbled by piranha attacks of increased state taxes. Combined budgets of U.S. Governors as 46 legislatures convene this year*to consider fiscal matters: more than $17 billion, an increase over current expenditures of about $1 billion...
...beginning, and it is Actor Palance. This performer has made his reputation by the portrayal of violent emotion, and this state of spirit he portrays most vividly. Indeed, he seems unable to portray anything else. Does he eat a sandwich? No, he tears it to pieces like a starved piranha. As Palance plays his parts, it becomes increasingly difficult to decide which is the sane brother and which the crazy one. In any case, if there is anything more depressing than Actor Palance...
...longing for primitive things. He found them: crocodiles everywhere, spiders that can catch birds, anacondas more than 60 ft. long that wail disturbingly in the jungle night, bloodsucking cockroaches, 2-in. biting ants, hordes of vampire bats, rivers full of stingrays, electric eels and shoals of tiny, man-eating piranha...