Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie openings go, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood made its bow with a wow. Producers of the film, a take-off on 1920s animal flicks, shunned the usual theater scene and held the premiere right on Paramount's spacious Hollywood lot. With good reason, since 100 of the 575 first-nighters were canines. Among them: Zsa Zsa Gabor's Lhasa Apso, Genghis Khan, and Valerie Perrine's 250-lb. mastiff, Thurber. "Genghis was the only pet allowed inside the movie," boasted Zsa Zsa-a fact apparent to everyone once the beast began demonstrating...
...wow, I won," Drickamer screamed--in take...
...best film in Cambridge this weekend is at the Harvard-Epworth Church. There are many weekends when this statement could be made, since their programmers are so solid, but this time it is especially true. Strangers on a Train. Wow! It's malicious, it's visually stunning, and in none of Hitchcock's American films does he etch his characters with such trenchant economy. Best scene: Robert Walker obsessively watches a tennis game with murder on his mind. Everyone else's eyes follow the ball; Walker's follow Farley Granger. (This scene was shot, by the way, on location...
...killed in a 1966 World Cup event; and that's called the Soldier Section because they found a dead soldier there in 1945." As if that wasn't enough, when an Italian named Stricker crashed on the course, ABC reran the film with comments like "What a tremendous crash, Wow!" Two runs later, an Austrian, Grissman, wiped-out and bounced and slid and quivered over a couple hundred yards of the course. ABC then treated us, as five other skiers took their runs, to playbacks of the crash, plus interspersed shots of Grissman being dragged off the course...
When I think of her, the word "Wow!" comes to mind...