Word: chap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosper because they seem more persuasive than fact. Nicolas Roeg's Castaway has another challenge. Just try believing that a bright, spirited woman like Lucy Irvine (Amanda Donohoe) would answer a man's ad for a desert-island mate and set out for a year alone with an impractical chap like Gerald Kingsland (Oliver Reed). But it did happen, and Roeg and Writer Allan Scott have made an engaging movie based on Irvine's memoir...
...welcome figure in countless cartoons, advertisements and late-show reruns. He can currently be seen in a fresh, over-the-top interpretation by Jeremy Brett in a new PBS series. The well-stuffed Watson, for all the adventures, scarcely looks a day over 45. Not bad for a chap of 100-plus...
...turned my attention down under, to Foster's, which promotes itself as: "Foster's, it's Australian for beer, mate." In the commercial, Paul "Crocodile Dundee" Hogan was shown clubbing a fish with a baseball bat. Now, Hogan is an affable looking chap and the ad showed promise so I checked out the brew. I found, however, a serious flaw with Foster's in the size of the can. No matter how good the first two-thirds of any Foster's, it takes the better part of a day to reach the room-temperature dregs. So I nixed Australia...
...ancient sport of cuckoldry. Vacationing in Britain, the narrator and his wife put up at a fusty old angling hotel in Wales. Every morning a Wodehouse-load of stuffed shirts set off to the salmon water, tackle in hand. Among them goes "poor Holloway," a somewhat seedy chap of dubious breeding who has yet to catch a salmon in 20 years of trying. Meanwhile, the "salmon widows" wait restlessly back at the hotel -- for Holloway to sneak away from the river to yet another noonday tryst. Just as the juvenile parr of the salmon tribe dart in among their unaware...
...amount of concern showered on Chambers and his family further emphasizes the notion that he was the victim, not Levin. The poor chap never got enough attention from his parents, the tabloids tell us; and, what's more, he had the grave misfortune of shuttling from prep school to prep school because of failing grades. Not only did the New York Post run a front page picture depicting the grief of his parents, but it also gave top billing to an interview in which Chambers said, "I have no ill feeling toward Jennifer or her family...