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They spiraled hurriedly up from Level One, noting with irritation that the doors to the stair-wells made more noise than the stairs themselves. The men's bathroom door--the closest--made the most noise of all. After a suitable period of skulking--including one abortive escape mission cut short by a door slamming right around the corner--quiet returned and they cautiously worked their way back downstairs...
...Marseillaise. His mother Reatha uses the computer to help her manage a gourmet cookware store, and even Sister Terri, who originally cast the family's lone vote against the computer, uses it to store her high school class notes. Says Brown: "It's become kind of like the bathroom. If someone is using it, you wait your turn...
Eugeniusz and Grazyna live with their son Mariusz, 10, in a one-room apartment in a 50-year-old building. They must share the bathroom, which is down the hall, with other tenants on their floor. Yet they consider themselves fortunate. Says Grazyna: "In the '70s, when we got married, it was still possible to buy furniture and appliances. I really admire any young couple starting off now. They have nothing, and no hope of any improvement...
...first scene we need underwater photography. Very expensive, but we're going first-class. The opening shot is a stunner. The viewer doesn't know it yet, but he's looking up from inside the drain of a bathroom sink. Very spooky. There's a lot of ice floating around, seen from below, and in the middle of the Cinemascope screen something that looks, at extreme close range, as if it might be the hull of the Titanic. Bubbles are coming out of this ambiguous mass, "BLUB-BLUB-BLUB-BLUB!" Tension grips the audience...
...That understates the case. In his head, and in as much of his life as he can control, he insists on not being "Paul Newman." In his first scene in The Sting, Newman is discovered lying drunk and unshaven, with his nose mashed against the baseboard of a crummy bathroom. Not many of Hollywood's firm-jawed preeners would have allowed the shot, but he has taken pains to look as gruesome as possible. It is an obvious mockery of the "sex symbol" blather that makes him writhe. He refuses to play out the celebrity part. He will...