Word: twirler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desperadoes. The Magnificent Seven it is not; it is The Three Amigos, a comedy adventure due for Christmas that also features Martin in other roles: co-writer (with Singer-Songwriter Randy Newman, who provides four songs for the three sometime mariachis), executive producer and even fancy rope twirler. Which one gets the senorita? Chase, for one, would say only, "I think I get a peck on the cheek...
...somehow it works, despite the fact that the setting (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and the plot (which involves, among other factors, sins of an older generation) appear to be borrowed from Ross Macdonald. It works, in part, because Czech-born Director Ivan Passer (Intimate Lighting) is a junk-ball twirler with an ability to put a loony backspin on bitterness. In his pictures people strike out laughing. More important, he finds a way to make one care about losers without imputing hidden heroic virtues to them. And Writer Fiskin knows how to construct revealing scenes economically, with characters talking truly tough...
...Twirler. Twice a year the Actors Theater encourages everyone connected with it to participate in a short-play contest. The winner who created Twirler has chosen to remain anonymous. A pity: he or she is dramatically gifted. In a ten-minute monologue, the author moves from the mundane ("People think you're a twit if you twirl") to the realm of a mystical religious experience ("Twirling is the throwing of yourself...
...joke it represents. Though little in the play is likely to diminish the movie in the eyes of true believers, some nice touches are evident. Stardust Memories actress C.J. Critt, as Columbia, Frank N. Furter's groupie, adds a freaked-out Haight Ashbury spaciness to her role; baton twirler champion Dennis Daniels portrays glistening muscle-god Rocky Horror, a Neanderthal in the film whose most eloquent line is "ugh!" with wit and gymnastic talent; and Steve Lincoln, as the narrator, hurries his lines, but the former ulcerridden CBS executive does well as the staid arm-chair commentator who occasionally trots...
...split, but like everything else all year, this team did it the hard way. Not content to rack the Cadets' inferior pitchers in the first game and then submit meekly to all-league twirler Craig Jones in the nightcap, the Crimson kept the good-sized Soldiers Field crowd around until the end, finally doing away with Jones using that rarest of of weapons in the Harvard arsenal, the longball...