Word: tantruming
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...frowning eyebrow, chivvies Mutt-and-Jeff style with Ernie, a bulbous-nosed charmer whose favorite sport is sitting in the tub, rhapsodizing to his rubber duckie. Oscar the Grouch lives in a garbage can. There he fulminates, venting such mock aggressions that by comparison a child in a tantrum is Little Mary Sunshine...
...before co-starring with him and adds: "He was the first person to teach me to enjoy acting." One of Elliott's lessons consisted of standing off-camera while Candy was doing a closeup for Getting Straight and mugging furiously to get her to respond. "He never throws a tantrum, never gets into a snit," says Bob Altman, who made M*A*S*H. "He knows exactly what he wants...
...likes manly young fellows -preferably draped in leather goods. Kath and Ed engage in a game of sexual cricket, with Sloane as the wicket. As is always the case with such games, it is the bystander who suffers. Dadda ends as a mummy, done in during a Sloane tantrum. The outcome is bigamy, accompanied by rituals that ridicule marriage, family, religion, sex and death...
...child in a spell of anger wants to antagonize and mess and destroy on a titanic scale." What troubles the doctor is that such impulses escape the nursery; fathers and mothers, artists, politicians, scientists and generals-all of them go around breaking things. Medicine cannot cope with civilization as tantrum...
Raquel had less fun in her celebrated confrontation with Jim Brown in 100 Rifles. She reportedly called Brown "a convict" during a tantrum in Fox Vice President Richard Zanuck's office. On location, Brown did little to smooth the situation, which took on unfortunate racial overtones. At lunch he growled at her: "Pass the salt; it isn't black." She and Brown finally stopped talking altogether. The picture was execrable. But it cost only $6 million and raked in money. Another south-of-the-border oater, Bandolero, gave Raquel the opportunity to demand of Dean Martin, "How duss...