Word: macmurray
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incest into the narrative, and no doubt a touch of mental illness. On the other hand, we have gone pretty far in exhausting the categories of the forbidden. The love that dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much sense anymore of the sheer weirdness of that fact. We are harder to shock or impress. It has been years since the woman called Madonna simulated masturbation on stage with a crucifix...
...COCKTAILS/DANCING, and over the years, memorizing one verse after another, you build up an intense interest in a place like that. You imagine walking in and finding yourself in a movie--the maitre d' takes your coat and hat and nods toward a corner banquette, and there sits Fred MacMurray, your boss at Acme, stubbing out a Lucky, grinning, and you realize it's all true--you're assistant manager now, you got the big raise, you and Sue and Becky and Little Buddy can move out to Sunny Acres...
...religion that ultimately led Blair to politics. Interested mostly in the social gospel, he was heavily influenced by John Macmurray, a Scottish philosopher who wrote that Christians have a positive obligation to work toward improving society--the communitarian notion he still trumpets regularly. Blair nevertheless rarely speaks about his faith in public, refrains from ending speeches with "God bless you" and never attends high-profile prayer breakfasts with prominent religious figures. When asked by TIME if he is religious, Blair, who normally speaks in well-constructed, seamless paragraphs, became inarticulate: "I am, but I don't...you know...every time...
...plays all the lead male roles. The show has glorious sets by Tony luminary David Mitchell (Barnum, Annie) and 500 phantasmagorical costumes by Theoni Aldredge (A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls). Among the contributors to its original score is, well, Don Grady, whose first eminence was as the hunkiest of Fred MacMurray's three TV sons but who now writes lush, hummable ballads. Finally, EFX has that cosmic expanse of spirit, that lift of a driving dream, that wily, woozy pretentiousness, that have marked the boffo Broadway musical ever since Cats crept into town nearly 13 years...
Based on a James Cain novel about conspiracy and murder, the film features Fred MacMurray as a scandalous insurance salesman. MacMurray sells a policy for accidental death to a naive man and plots with the man's wife (Barbra Stanwyck) to kill him and collect the money. MacMurray's boss (Edward G. Robinson), hesitant to pay the policy, stalks the couple, waiting for one fatal slip...