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...star herself was paid precisely $3,750 for the entire series, with half that much still to come from the American broadcasts. There are no sets unless you count some sheds, a car and a carport. There are no costumes; obviously Woodhouse was born in a blue sweater, plaid skirt and sensible English shoes. The filming is on the level of the average home movie, and the action consists solely of Woodhouse putting mutts and masters through their paces. The dogs appear to be enjoying themselves; the owners, a dozen or so terror-stricken men and women...
...facade. The result was not unlike that of an Alpine goat-herder's hut. Archie Bunker may seem like a conformist, but he is, a heart, an individualist who rebels against uniformity not of his own making. He considers it his right to paint his house coral or plaid if he wants to, much as he would tattoo his biceps or select an inscription for his T shirt...
...attendants in orange-and-green plaid suits dispensed drinks from airline-style carts in the aisles, one railroad buff marveled: "Look, not even a ripple on my Beaujolais...
Charles, who had previously projected a kind of steady, Urquhart-plaid personality, seemed to pick up some more dash, as if he were beginning to realize rather belatedly what his sporting friends would happily have told him: that he had made a damned lucky catch...
Slight, softspoken, reclusively inclined, Lucas wears that mantle as lightly as he wears the garb of his Star Wars success. He drives a Toyota, wears plaid sports shirts and high-top basketball sneakers, works in a home-office complex in Marin County, across the bridge from San Francisco. He loathes Los Angeles ("Hollywood doesn't care about film; they live to make deals") and does not like to direct. He runs his Lucasfilm operation tightly but benignly. His top executives are often film-school graduates and always knowledgeable, low-key, untemperamental. They have to be smart since...