Word: strangler
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...listen, and Sally's auditions eventually led to a couple of featured roles on television and a tiny part in Reform School Girl, "one of those American-International kind of movies where I played the weight lifter or something," she remembers. Next came a part in The Boston Strangler. "I put on a bunch of bruises and decided I wasn't going to worry any more. Once I did that, I said, 'All right, I'll take anything they'll give...
They gave her The Third Day ("I played a sex pervert") and The April Fools. "That was the knock on the head. When they finally sent me the script it was The Boston Strangler Revisited. I played another cold woman. But I went around for a lot of interviews before the film was released, and I could say that I had played Jack Lemmon's wife. I made it sound like it was Sally and Jack all the way, instead of four lines...
...rope-stays in style year after year. Remember Leopold and Loeb, Lizzie Borden, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the Lindberg kidnapping, Ma Barker, Bonnie and Clyde and Theodore Dreiser's American Tragedy? If not, how about Texas sniper Charles Whitman, Chicago nurse murderer Richard Speck, the Boston Strangler and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...
HENRY: Not a point of it. PETER: I haven't seen Boston Strangler. HENRY: Neither did I. [Laughter.] I want to see it because Jane wrote me one of the nicest fan letters I ever got when she saw it in Paris. I don't like to see myself on the screen. I don't like the sound of my voice...
...streets, zoom out of the curves. I glide noiselessly through the long December shadows of the trees on the Arborway. I pass you on the expressway, the streetlights bleeding away on the bend in my windshield. Have you heard about the midnight rambler? Have you heard about the Boston. . . strangler...