Word: segale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carl Reiner's best films bear little resemblance to Oh God!. Where's Poppa?, for example, was pervaded by a manic hysteria, and peopled by feverish buffoons whose monomaniacal intensities constantly collided, resulting in sprawling calamities that were often exhaustingly funny. George Segal's wild-eyed sexual/homicidal obsessions (frustrated at every turn by his incessantly doddering mother, Ruth Gordon) produced scenes of comic genius, and in a lesser film, like The Comic, such moments successfully diverted attention from Reiner's maudlin tendencies in his quieter scenes. But in Oh God! the maudlin preponderates; Reiner chooses, for reasons...
...Kings, to name a few), and he is now looking for ambitious ideas and first-rate scripts. He does not like seeing them end up in the hands of others. Two pictures that he "would have killed for," Blume in Love and A Touch of Class, went to George Segal. Reynolds wants to use his box-office power to fight back. Says he: "I'm not sorry I'm bankable. It means I can get what I want. Now I can say, 'I want Glenda Jackson as a co-star?let George Segal drive...
Cooking can be a kind of therapy. Says Harvard Economist David Segal, 38: "I find cooking absolutely relaxing, totally absorbing and also extremely satisfying." Even some of the most ambitious cooks manage to assemble banquets without nerves. Ambrose Flaherty, 46, an advertising salesman for the Boston Globe, likes to prepare huge, rich meals for his family and friends. But, he maintains, "it's pure recreation. It's a great outlet for my energy and, besides, we're very gregarious." One recent feast for ten chez Flaherty featured roast suckling pig, stuffed goose, boiled lobsters, marinated mushrooms and Karen Flaherty...
...William Segal '79, a member of the Boston Committee Against the Bakke Decision, said the Bakke case is part of a nationwide vffort to reverse the gaihs minority students made at colleges and universities in the past decade...
...Kinget also has some good news: the passing of romantic love may mean "greater emotional and social stability" and the disappearance of marriages "founded on mutual illusions and cosmetic images." Take that, Erich Segal...