Word: smile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge Mayor Thomas H. Danehy, who was included in the charges, said with a smile during a recess last night, "My wife is preparing to do without me for a year when they send me to Leavenworth Penitentiary. Fuckin ridiculous! One of the charges against me concerns a donation by my 81-year-old mother. Another concerns a 73-year-old cousin. It's hard to take all this very seriosly," he added
...doctors, nurses and counselors attached to the hospice program. Members of the regular hospital staff report that watching the way hospice people treat the terminally ill has helped them modify their own behavior. "When a patient knows he's dying," one doctor notes, "you can't just smile and ask your usual 'Good morning...
...prove that he can write or direct at all. Dialogue often sounds improvised, and major emotional scenes are sometimes covered entirely by music. When they are not, they lack dynamics and tension. Now he has added lead acting to his repertory of skills, but it is strictly of the smile-and-shamble school. Probably his description should be "multiambitious...
...headed for his car to fill the list himself. "Why are you going?" I asked Jimmy. He winked at me and said, "You know how these union guys are -you send them downtown for nails and they end up having a few beers on the time clock." His broad smile covered the irony of his having helped labor achieve such a questionable state. He was a human. B.I.G...
Aside from an opening that recalls the old Nichols-May "doctor" routines, the script is flimsy and unfocused. Coming from Jerry Belson (Smile, TV's Dick Van Dyke Show), this is especially depressing. Belson wastes energy on repetitive slapstick bits that show the hero's bungled suicide attempts; The End's second half bogs down describing an unfunny friendship between Sonny and a clownish schizo (a mugging Dom DeLuise) whom he meets at a nuthouse. The film's characters and intentions are blurred and trivialized. What should have been a scabrous black comedy in the manner...