Word: stumblebums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford often laughs at the stumblebum jokes that are a staple of political comics. They do not bother him, partly because he is an extraordinarily secure personality -and partly because he knows he is the most coordinated and best preserved tenant of the White House since Teddy Roosevelt. Ford walked into a staff meeting the other day bragging about the 94 that he had shot at the tough Congressional Country Club course, site of last week's PGA Tournament. "I parred five holes," he proudly announced to aides assembled to discuss the weighty affairs of the world...
...song that Davies manages to ignore. He dismisses, for instance, the difficult but hardly inaccessible Finnegans Wake as a "monument to perversity." So much for 18 years of his subject's life-and for a palimpsest dream-epic of surpassing erudition and beauty. Davies' stumblebum Joyce is thus every bit as one-dimensional as the St. James who has been propped up by generations of acolytes...
Much Life. Gould is especially adept at a stumblebum wise-guy act, which stands him in good stead through most of the movie. It is a pose, however, that he finds difficult to shake. When he is called upon to look injured and badly beaten, he does not quite pull...
What finally shakes Alren up is a stumblebum encounter with a sullen nymphomaniac (Tiffany Boiling). He takes a plane to Mexico, gets a quickie divorce, and, without explanation or motivation, promptly returns for his exwife, whom he seduces in the linen closet of the country club. "There are no answers," he announces with the pride of someone who has solved the riddie of the Sphinx. "You've just got to start by starting." So saying, he takes Lisa, clad only in a towel, and charges across the well-populated lawn of the country club like Ben Braddock dashing...
...title role, Astin looks unhappy, and most of the supporting players-including Pamela Tiffin and Keenan Wynn-wince along with them. Jonathan Winters, as General Billy Joe Hallson, secondhand mattress salesman and head of the San Antonio unit of the Texas National Guard, has a couple of good stumblebum comic moments, as does Kenneth Mars playing a Texas Minuteman. But even they can do nothing about the witless dialogue and vapid plotting, which lace the comic moments in Viva Max with all the kick of day-old cerveza...