Word: villainously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With such unpredictable performances from the animals, the film's villain, former Olympic Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, chickened out on a scheduled wrestling scene with a leopard. "It was chained to a tree," explained Rafer, "and it was ripping the bark right off with its claws. I told the director: 'You get yourself another boy.' " Johnson was not the only recalcitrant actor. On the day Tarzan returned to the set, he was directed to ambush three Indian extras. Mike out-Tarzaned his thirteen predecessors, played it like a red-dogging linebacker, taking out all three with...
...Subtitles come much cheaper, but audiences in the richer nations like Germany won't abide them, viewers in the poorer ones can't read them. Not that a lot does not get lost in the translations. In the original version of a Zane Grey Theater episode, the villain burst into a saloon, hammered his fist on the bar and growled: "Gimme a redeye!" The French version: "Donnez-moi un Dubonnet...
Other times the mistranslations are on purpose. In Moslem Kuwait, government censors changed the villain's order to: "Give me a glass of milk." Kissing scenes are also deleted outright in Kuwait, limited to a wham-bam five seconds in Lebanon. At the same time, a Danish programmer complains that "American shows are too Victorian in their morals...
...AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE, by Daniel J. Boorstin. Historian Boorstin bases his cultural history of the U.S. on what is home-grown American rather than what was modified from European life. The "booster" who followed the pioneer westward and developed the country is his hero; his villain the Southern planter, who borrowed all of English agrarian life and needed slaves to make it work...
Died. Zachary Scott, 51, character actor, a mustachioed Texan who ambled around Hollywood wearing a pirate-style gold earring, was most often cast as the oil-slick villain of Hollywood cliffhangers (Ruthless, Whiplash), but proved equally proficient in the demanding Broadway role of the relentless defense attorney in Faulkner's 1959 Requiem for a Nun; of cancer; in Austin, Texas...