Word: skidoo
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...beer, potatoes, bread and candy bars bought with bi-monthly welfare checks. In spite of a special concession from the Canadian government for unlimited hunting and fishing rights, fish have been scare this year on account of the protracted cold, and it's a lot easier to ride a Skidoo across the frozen river in mid-January to buy canned Irish stew than it is to go out and kill a moose...
...front of the single row of houses, singing, wailing and tapping on window panes in search of companionship. They are simply ignored. One evening, from our broken picture window, we watched the sun disappear behind the hills up the river. Suddenly, a drunk man broke the stillness, driving his Skidoo wildly along the muddy riverbank, shouting to himself and to his wife who stood surrounded by children in the doorway of their house. The Skidoo lurched over the bank and down to where a boat was tied to a log. There he threw it and himself into the boat, announced...
...Listen, man, I got this really far-out project called Brewster McCloud, right? It was written, if you can dig it, by the guy who wrote Skidoo. [There are cries of "Oh my God" from elsewhere on the bench.] Just cool it a minute. It's a really weird little number, man. I mean, it's like about this guy who lives in the basement of the Houston Astrodome and builds a pair of wings cause he wants...
...Skidoo. Otto Preminger's idiosyncratic (naive, if you like) comedy about American youth. A mammoth ugly crime syndicate is used to symbolize the establishment; LSD and a draft-card burner save the day. All Preminger and all crazy...
...BRINGS us to the Awards--thankfully lacking the moral righteousness of last year's, and making up for a general dearth of humor by being more-or-less accurate for a change. Our tuxedoed crusaders have played it safe by avoiding controversial art (Faces) or excellent but vulnerable Americana (Skidoo, The Legend of Lylah Clare), and have instead gone after sacred cows--The Lion In Winter, rosemary's Boby, Star!, Barbarella-- truly wretched films in need of a little deflating. For this we thank them, although somehow the point of a Movie Worsts issue tends to get lost when...