Word: vulgarisms
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...dumping Stars & Stripes and making a deal to sail Marshall's Young America-the first time a finalist has switched boats before the last series. Conner might have coveted Mighty Mary, but the women weren't about to let him have their boat, not after Conner's crew shouted vulgar insults and made obscene gestures at them during start maneuvers in the semifinals. Said Bill Koch, who funded Mighty Mary's attempt: "If we gave him our boat, some of the women told me they'd knock holes in it first...
Jefferson in Paris brings this bit of vulgar wisdom back to mind. Regrettably so, for it is the work of that redoubtable trio consisting of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. With films like Howards End and Remains of the Day, they have, almost alone, kept alive what in Cohn's day was one of Hollywood's more agreeable genres: the handsomely made, well-acted literary-historical drama. These movies reflected the cultural aspirations of producers like Irving Thalberg and David O. Selznick while serving the needs of that portion of the audience not enamored...
...Brady Bunch Movie was in some ways his most trying project. In one version of the script, the naive-to-their-knee-socks Bradys were turned into foulmouthed hellions. "It was vulgar," says Schwartz. "Instead of making it a gentle satire, it was written with an ax." Schwartz, who has four children and has been married to his wife Mildred for 54 years, fired off memos to Paramount chief Sherry Lansing, threatening to campaign against the film should it contain racy scenes or base language. He won. The film, which transports the Formica-loving clan to a '90s world...
...call it hyperdemocracy. today's political scene is mobocracy, with the know-nothings of talk radio in charge. The Fairness Doctrine may give Americans some respite from the cheap, the vulgar, the mean and the ugly, and is our only hope...
...call it hyperdemocracy. today's political scene is mobocracy, with the know-nothings of talk radio in charge. The Fairness Doctrine may give Americans some respite from the cheap, the vulgar, the mean and the ugly, and is our only hope...