Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SIDNEY SHELDON'S BLOODLINE...
...always a little surprising to find them so poorly observed. Almost any of the gos sip columns that provide the raw material for these films are more amusing, and more professionally managed. One suspects that there is a better story in he agentry that got Novelist Sheldon's name worked into the movie's official title than in anything that is actually up there on the screen...
Falk and Arkin are thrown together when their respective children decide to marry. The newlyweds (Penny Peyser and Michael Lembeck) are upstanding graduates of Mount Holyoke and Yale; the dads are students of Groucho and Chico. Sheldon Kornpett (Arkin) is a very nervous man who delights in being "among the first dentists in New York to use the drill that spritzes water." Vince Ricardo (Falk) claims to have dreamed up the Bay of Pigs invasion. Sheldon wonders if Vince might be nuts, but Vince has proof of his most famous exploit: an autographed portrait of J.F.K. with the inscription...
...Writer Andrew Bergman's cockamamy script would have it, Vince is currently involved in a complex scheme to prevent an international monetary crisis. Runaway inflation is a terrible thing, Vince explains, because people start to use currency as wallpaper and tend to listen to atonal music. Though Sheldon wants nothing to do with his inlaw, he soon becomes his unwitting accomplice. What follows is a nonstop series of shootouts, chase scenes and mishaps that catapult the heroes from suburban New Jersey to Manhattan's treacherous West 30s and finally to a banana republic so corrupt that its main...
...passengers on last week's fatal flight was Author Judith Wax, 47, who was flying with her husband Sheldon Wax, 51, managing editor of Playboy magazine. In her last book, Starting in the Middle, she wrote lightly and amusingly about incidents in her life. In retrospect, one of her lines acquired new meaning. "When the job required travel," she wrote, "I developed such a fear of airplanes my head trembled from takeoff to landing...