Word: ribbings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keaton was on the set for 76 days, playing in every scene of the film except one. Halfway through she cracked a rib when Actor Richard Gere, who plays a stud named Tony, threw her to the floor. "It was my fault," she said. "I knew how to take the fall, but I blew it. Besides, it's fun to do that wild, physical stuff. And it's nice to get really angry and scream, and then walk away from the responsibility for all that when the shooting is over...
Then it is Abzug's turn. A year or two ago, "Battling Bella" might have hollered some rib-cracking ripostes. Instead, she manages to look dainty in her white straw hat. Despite the heat and her bulk, she gives her most benign smile, a cultivated mannerism that accentuates the Oriental cast of her eyes. Sweetly, she says: "I disagree with Mr. Koch. I think that I am magnificent." The crowd exhales delight...
...thought Adam down in the Garden of Eden, who was getting pretty bored himself having nothing to do all day but eat forbidden fruit, might like the game. But Adam had no one to play with either so God created Eve out of Adam's rib so they could play pong...
...biggest subject: sexual habits and stereotypes. In everything but anatomy and dress, the women are men and the men are women. Out of that basic conceit flow-or, more precisely, meander-all jokes and situations. "Our premise is simple," explains Lear. "God created Eve first, took out her rib and gave her a companion so she wouldn't be lonely. This was Adam. I think the audience will be fascinated to watch the endless role playing and, more important, to discern the similarities in the needs, hopes and fears shared by all human beings, regardless of gender...
...played Al Pacino's wife in both Godfathers. But her greatest departure from form, and probably the hardest role of her career, is in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which finished shooting last February. She worked without a break for 76 days, some of the time with a cracked rib, playing a sexually compulsive schoolteacher who travels from affair to affair in Manhattan singles bars and finally to her doom...