Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trivia nothing! The impact of late show dialogue far outweighs the cliche factor. John Ireland to Montgomery Clift in Red River: "There's only two things in the world nicer than a good gun: A Swiss watch and a woman from anywhere. Ever have a good Swiss watch...
...movies on TV are an integral part of their epoch; they are growing up with a borrowed nostalgia for a time they never knew. The once-irretrievable past has become as salable as a personality poster, as audible as a Fred Astaire LP. The late show is ransacked for trivia questions and recherche cliches...
Perhaps the foremost collector of film trivia is Harry Purvis, a Canadian writer whose catalogue which appears irregularly in TV Guide, includes the following...
...assistants. Mrs. Johnson has preserved home movies of him campaigning for Congress in 1937, and there is treasured footage shot by her husband as a World War II Navy lieutenant commander aboard the Flying Fortress Swoose when it crash-landed in Australia in 1942. This plethora of memorabilia and trivia, together with hundreds of official gifts from visiting dignitaries, will be housed in a special Johnson library at the University of Texas in Austin. L.B.J. also aims to help set up an institute of public affairs at the school, aided by foundation grants, emphasizing a redefinition of the nature...
...full, untidy range of his lusts, ambitions, despair, sickness, vanity and, best of all, his maliciously acute observations of the people and places he knew. The letters alone make an overwhelming self-portrait, and to them Holroyd adds a detailed scholarship that makes lugubrious comedy out of the slightest trivia, including the fact that Lytton was "suffering acutely from piles and carrying with him everywhere an air cushion which he had hired for one-and-six a week...