Word: slobbing
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...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...
...well-behaved race of people in the world," he says. "They have an extraordinary emotional ruthlessness too. It's terribly difficult to know where the center of an actor is. They don't quite know who they are. They want to be villain, hero, king and slob all at the same time." He gives them ample room for improvisation when they are working for him. "People are spontaneous and do quick, true little things," he explains. "I can control it afterward in the cut ting room...
...Seesaw. Gittel Moscowitz is a slob. Also a kook. Number one, she lives in the Village and looks it. She is 29 but she still wears ballet flats, black tights and bulky knits, and her hair is like something she maybe found under a bed. Add to which she is having her second ulcer and living on cottage cheese, as everybody can plainly see from the mess on the front of her bulky knit. But Gittel has a career. She is known as Gittel Mosca on the stage-of the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. Gittel has push. For years she picked...
...course of their brief affair the lawyer and the slob laugh, cry, work, play, fight, love, live. And at the end of the affair, they are wiser and stronger than they were before. For the first time in his life, the lawyer loves as a grown man loves, taking what he wants and leaving what he doesn't; and what he doesn't want, he decides, is to spend his life with Gittel. The shock is painful, but for the first time in her life she refuses to give herself to a man who doesn't want...