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Word: spreader (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last. Wilder, 35, has lately been besieged with scripts and has sifted through them with his own brand of mad logic. What sort of actor would turn down a tempting offer from Mike Nichols to play in Catch-22, but accept the lead role as a Dublin manure spreader in a film improbably titled Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in The Bronx? To everyone's good fortune (especially his own), Wilder did just that. Says he: "Quackser was the idealization of everything I've wanted to do as an actor. He typifies where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Happy Peasant | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

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