Word: handouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word of Buñuel's enlarging reputation reached Generalissimo Franco, who invited Buñuel back to the old country to make a film, all expenses paid. Biting the handout that fed him, Buñuel created Viridiana, a movie with the inexorable rhythm of a time bomb. Vatican and Franco partisans needed only one look at the scene in which a nun is raped by a beggar; Viridiana was swiftly disowned...
...sounding like a doddering idiot. If The Front Page has a certain cornball, period flavor, it simply seems to add relish to a high-spirited and persistently amusing evening. The Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in the Chicago of the 1920s is the liveliest public relations handout ever issued on the newspaper game. It makes a newspaperman seem like a combination of knight, sleuth, adventurer and liquored-up, hard-bitten prince of the realm - the Fourth Estate seen in the guise of the First Estate...
Public relations handout of the week, from the Manhattan office of Solters & Sabinson: "If Aristotle Onassis becomes President of Greece, as many observers expect, his Jacqueline will not be the first woman in history to become First Lady of two nations. Away back in the 12th century, Eleanor of Aquitaine had been Queen of France and later Queen of England. The current box office success, The Lion in Winter, starring Peter O'Toole as Henry II and Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor, makes clear references to these historical facts...
...PHRASEMAKER. My friends, in calling for law and order, we must not stop the fight to combat despair. We must stand for a hand up, not a handout...
...actor in Cool Hand Luke was long overdue. But naming Estelle Parsons best supporting actress for Bonnie and Clyde was only quirky: hers was the least significant characterization in the movie. Though Bonnie and Clyde was nominated for ten awards, the Academy ultimately gave it the back of its handout: the most distinguished film of the year won only one other Oscar-for Burnett Guffey's cinematography...