Word: slob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin living an uproarious travesty of a bad marriage, an astutely characterized study in incompatability. Matthau is a gruff, irresponsible slob, a sort of cigar-chomping depilated bear who shambles around in his ill-kept cave. A Friday night poker-playing crony judges Matthau by a Rorschach test of his refrigerator: "I saw milk standing in there that wasn't even in the bottle." By contrast, Carney is a fuss-budgety fanatic of cleaning and cooking. The kitchen is his womb, and the apron string is his umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder...
After Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh, it is scarcely news that Jason Robards and O'Neill are incomparable stagemates, or that Robards possesses consummate skills. He shuns Ivy League gentility, and he has never pretended to be a T-shirted slob-esthete who fusses with the Meth od. He belongs to an older and solider breed, the man in actor's clothing. He does precisely what O'Neill always asked of himself, even in this lesser play-he lays his life on the lines...
...finds it, but then he finds so many other wonderful things to steal that the sight sobers him and he runs off to collect a more efficient colleague (Ann Sothern). Poor slob, he also collects three predatory teenagers, two boys and a girl, who tail him back to the mansion, snatch his boodle, conk him cold and, finding nothing better to do, kill...
...success of the film is remarkable, for in many ways Tom Jones appears an almost impossible movie to make. The hero is an amoral bastard who must be made likeable; Squire Western is a slob who must not seem repulsive; the squire are whores, yet cannot appear sordid; the heroine is sexy, but her virtue must not seem ridiculous...
...part that he sends them to Gimbels if Macy's doesn't have it. The Detroit Free Press's Louis Cook found it "joyful and gay, and if you don't feel a happy tear gathering now and then you're a real slob." After stops in Washington and Philadelphia, it will open in New York...