Word: sidekicks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Andy Devine, 71, gargle-voiced actor who played the hero's pudgy sidekick in scores of western films, turned to TV in the 1950s with Wild Bill Hickok and Andy's Gang; of leukemia; in Orange, Calif...
Billy Whitecloud, of Chief Jay Strongbow sidekick fame, offers, "I have finally come to terms with myself. I have an identity now, I'm my own woman. I think EVERYONE should...
...owned by the protagonist of Wim Wenders' dour Kings of the Road. Wenders' people are preoccupied with their own rootlessness. In Tanner's mirthless Swiss political comedy everyone is one variety or another of Boho Marxist. In Kings of the Road, the hero, Bruno, and his sidekick, Robert, are only sporadically looking to connect. For the most part, they have engineered a working arrangement with hopelessness. They ride from one small, shabby West German town to another, while Bruno repairs equipment in dilapidated movie theaters. The musty dream palaces have turned into mausoleums with chewing...
...Bunker seeks sexual fulfillment with a waitress. Rhoda and Joe bust up. Charlie Haggars undergoes television's first testicle transplant. Maude's Arthur goes bankrupt. Ted Baxter has a heart attack in mid-newscast. Lionel Jefferson marries Jennie. Florida loses her husband. McMillan loses his wife, his sidekick and his housekeeper...
...violence in a film they have just seen, he reminds her that "nobody made you go there, you know. Matter of fact, I think I hadda pay the guy about six bucks, I think it was, before he'd let either one of us in." Hunter's sidekick facetiously admits to having no brains: "That's why I decided, I was gonna be a cop. If I was any dumber, I would've been eligible for law school...