Word: albert
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Back from a lengthy concert tour, Claude meets his agent Norman Robbins (Albert Brooks) and listens to some gibberish about a private detective's report on his wife. Confused about the detective. Claude denies any jealous tendencies. His manservant, Giuseppe (Richard Libertini), misunderstood Claude's request "Keep an eye on her" for the Italian equivalent of "Get a private eye to follow her." With the requisite veneer of trust, Claude poo-poos the report and falls back into the arms of Daniella...
Several excellent supporting roles complete the comic balance. As his agent, Norman, Albert Brooks plays the perfect straight man for the dynamic Moore. In a riotous scene, a freshly released from jail Claude attacks Brooks in the police station. "Police, Police." Norman cries with blue suits literally everywhere. Richard Libertini as the manservant plays the clown character, forcing Moore to focus on his more diverse and definitely more interesting talents...
...Albert Lager '84, ranked in the top 20 in Canada, was the team's top cross-country skier last year, but left the ski team this year to devote himself to crew. "I liked going away every weekend, and I miss the skiing," he says...
...started when one dog owner refused to pay her fine. She was jailed for two days and released after the case attracted howling attention from the press. To poodle a little more excitement into the story, the Icelandic State Broadcasting Service sought reactions from, among others, Finance Minister Albert Gudmundsson. Readily admitting that he owned a fetching 13-year-old mongrel named Lucy, Gudmundsson unleashed a counterattack against the capital's law. If pooch came to shove, he barked, he would neither part with Lucy nor pay a fine that he considered silly and a violation of human rights...
...middle classes of the Victorian century, widely thought to have suppressed sexuality in favor of piety and profit, were just as amorous as their great-grandchildren of today. Even Queen Victoria was not really Victorian, says Gay, for she "drew, and bought, male nudes and gave her adored husband Albert just such a drawing as a present...