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...California. The first female staff writer at Life, Alexander, a liberal, became a household name for her verbal sparring with conservative James Kilpatrick on Point-Counterpoint, a segment on TV's 60 Minutes in the 1970s that was often parodied on Saturday Night Live, with Dan Aykroyd's snarly retort to Jane Curtin, "Jane, you ignorant slut...
...Jack Nicholson film Five Easy Pieces; in Woodland Hills, Calif. In the movie, her unyielding "No substitutions" to Nicholson's request for toast with his lunch order prompts a prickly exchange that culminates with her disgusted "You want me to hold the chicken, huh?" and a Nicholson retort that has made the scene a fixture of Hollywood highlight reels...
...through farcical situations, but the Animal House spirit is not present in this academic grove. Real Genius, directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft and Peter Torokvei, is a smart, no-nonsense movie that may actually teach its prime audience a valuable lesson: the best retort to an intolerable situation is not necessarily a food fight. Better results, and more fun, come from rubbing a few brains briskly together. --By Richard Schickel YEAR OF THE DRAGON...
...different take. "If we are just safe in the urban areas and not in the heartland then America is not safe," he says. If Chertoff doesn't "pay close attention to the desires of Congress," Pryor warns, "he could very easily meet a lot of resistance." The secretary's retort: "Not everyone is going to be happy...
Without missing a beat, I could retort, “Come on, Mom, this is the ’90s!” What can the little kids say now when their disturbed parents question the value of 50 Cent? “Seriously Dad, this is the ‘ohs’?” “Get with the ‘naughts’?” “For the love of God, we’re in the ‘ohzies’?” (Actually, there really...