Word: slob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hawkeye Pierce, Donald Sutherland plays the penultimate draftee, a drooping, lugubrious sack of sadness who makes Beetle Bailey look like Douglas MacArthur. His sidekick, Trapper, pungently played by Elliott Gould, is a fur-bearing slob with the skills of a Christiaan Barnard and the instincts of a pornographer. "How was it?" he teases Burns, post-coitus: "Better than self-abuse...
...Azdak. He revels in the part, establishing a comfortable rapport with his audience from the very beginning. His complacent irony is the luxury of someone in on the Big Joke of our pretensions, so much so that he would threaten us if he weren't such a self-proclaimed slob. Even if he weren't backed by such solid supporting characters, Klein would make the second act worth staying for, though he does have a tendency to get so wrapped up in Azdak that he jumps on his cue lines...
...There is one thing that Mike can do better than anybody else: with an angelic smile, he can ask a question that would get anyone else smashed in the face." Taking on Manhattan Restaurateur Toots Shor in the old days, Mike blurted, "Toots, why do people call you a slob?" Just last month, on 60 Minutes, Wallace reminded 32-year-old Millionaire Stewart Mott of his broken engagement to Girl Friend Christine Donovan and continued, "You still go together-aren't you going to get married?" The response: "We may some day, if we ever decide to have children...