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pursuing Paul Newman in electric wheelchairs; surprising Burt in his shower; bringing poor comfort to the studio head, now stricken by a heart attack and laid up in the hospital; or sweet-talking - silently, of course - an extravagantly campy sex bomb (Bernadette Peters) into joining the cause. Under scrutiny this premise may not be quite enough. Silent Movie could have used the sort of unifyingly insane notion that made Brooks' The Producers memorable: make a success by mounting the most miserable failure you can find...
Then Cambridge. The Charles a muddy sink with built-in garbage disposal. Walden Pond a kiddie matinee. Faucet water flat and stale as month-old Fritos. And even then, no shower attachment in the house. Sisters, mothers, water brothers, no place to go once a laughing river seduces you and runs away...
...route has been marked with special signs, and at intervals no more than a day's journey (roughly 50 miles) apart, there are specially reserved campgrounds and bike inns. The bike inns are usually borrowed churches, college dormitories and school gymnasiums, where inexpensive meals, a bed and shower can be had, but a few are splendidly exotic. Two favorites: a gristmill in Kentucky and a marble-adorned Victorian-era hotel in Sinclair...
...began to shower letters and phone calls on some 100 bureaucrats and politicians, including Congressmen and Senators-with little response. He tried to phone President Ford and Henry Kissinger but never got through. He made four personal pleas to the rebels, including a radio appeal that Radio Ethiopia never broadcast. He went on U.S. local television more than 30 times for interviews and personal entreaties. When the rebels threatened to execute his son last fall unless the U.S. handed over $5 million ransom and dismantled its military bases in Ethiopia, he stepped up his appeals to the State Department...
...white beach. It is one large room with lift-up frond shutters that invite the gentle sea breeze. In addition to a large bed festooned with mosquito netting, the room contains a refrigerator and gas-fed stove. In the back, separated by a wall, is a flush toilet and shower. The place is comfortable but fairly primitive, very much a man's digs...