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...never really learn too much about Pierre either. We do see the way Pierre Paul work together, laugh together, and play together -- like young colts frisking about. To raise their lowered spirits, they pull a stunt on the tram that is screamingly funny; but even there, something rings false. It is too collegey, too typical of the type of thing that populates Annette Funicello movies to tell us anything about what they feel for one another...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall comes with the last pages bound by a yellow paper band, slim but snug, that boasts that anyone who "can resist the startling ending" should return the book to the publishers, band still intact, for full reimbursement. Such a stunt may deflect attention from a contrived Freudian somersault about an attorney whose sordid sexual history makes a formidably damaging brief in his own nightmarish, fantasy trial for murder...
Being liked and respected is a new experience for Reynolds. "I was like Lewis in Deliverance" he says. "I did anything physical to get attention." That included party pranks like jumping into swimming pools from third-story windows as well as being pushed out of windows as a professional stunt-man on live TV. Once he angrily threw an assistant director at Universal into a river...
...United Artists filmed the movie Cold Turkey (about a Midwestern town that gave up smoking) in Greenfield, Iowa. As a publicity stunt, one-third of the smokers of Greenfield actually gave up cigarettes for 30 days. Their reward: $6,000 from...
...Wallace because he's against this forced busin' and he's the only one who is." There's a lot he doesn't like about Wallace though, having lived for a while in Alabama under his high sales tax. He sees through Nixon; that China trip was a stunt, he says, and we are leaving Vietnam without having finished the job--plus getting licked...