Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHISPERING DIRTY WORDS in a girl's ear is one of the fool-proof secrets for driving a chick crazy offered by that cultural curiousity, How To Pick Up Girls. And plenty of good advice, too--if we judge by the audience of the London Madhouse Stunt Show last Sunday night--an audience that was reduced to a malleable jelly of shrieking girls by what seemed to be one endless train of obscenities, phallic jokes and frontal nudity...
...WILD STUNT SHOW is a heroic attempt to revive that much forgotten American art form--the vaudeville revue. When popular country singers warble about romantic "onenight-stands" we tend to forget that they are talking about those makeshift, vulgar, amateurish debacles played in cheap downtown auditoriums that we, growing up in the days of its decline, have come to associate with the word vaudeville. We tend to forget, too, that such modern idols as the Marx Brothers and Jack Benny all started like that, painfully and miserably, travelling on second-class night coach, starving and playing to jeering audiences...
...bank, and before long they are racing him to the vault. To the actual habitues of Ohio State Reformatory, where part of the movie was shot, it sometimes seemed that the wrong folk were behind bars. During a between-scenes football game that included Gould, Caan and a stunt man, Gould caught a long pass from his co-star and celebrated by doffing his clothes and leaping around the end zone. "The prison guards," observed Caan, "didn't seem to understand...
...Finley heard about a kid pitcher from Hertford, N.C., who had peppered his foot with shotgun pellets in a hunting accident. Finley descended upon Hertford, stalked the youngster, captured him with a $75,000 bonus and sent him to the Mayo Clinic for a foot operation. As a publicity stunt, Finley told the 18-year-old to call himself Catfish. Ten years later, Jim ("Catfish") Hunter won the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in the American League. Catcher Gene Tenace, Outfielder Joe Rudi and Relief Pitcher Rollie Fingers, all now A's stars, were signed by Finley within...
...Madhouse company of London has been carrying on with its "wild Stunt Show" all summer--it's actually a collection of vaudeville-type skits--and this Sunday you can get in free if you go to the box office between 6:45 and 7 p.m. and present something, anything, of British origin. The Company tried this play once before, and it must have been a success since they're repeating it. But if you ask the woman at the box office what sorts of things people showed up with, she will refuse to tell you "because it might give...