Word: dumbness
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...told her, and she took it from there. "She knew more about making movies than I did," Parker says now. Co-Star Baio-who broke many hearts among the girls in the company-says simply, "Jodie was funny, but really strong. One day I called her a name-dumb or something-and she gave me a karate kick. I went flying. Knocked over about five garbage cans and some ashtrays. Everybody came running, and she was standing there laughing." During shooting of the film's last scene, the pie throwing ran amuck and the kids let fly at everyone...
...Newman does well with the toothless make-shift. Elizabeth Taylor doesn't deliver the performance I expected from the legend, but those fond remembrances may have hailed back mostly to her more svelte youth. And both actors have to do running battle with a perverse Williams creation: the improbably dumb brother and his wife, with their five florid brats--made all the more unbearable by the wonders of film close-up. This one needs the teeth back...
...insiders in the delegation to be awaiting an excuse to move to Ford. The selection of Schweiker gave Reed that excuse. After taking phone calls from both Ford and Reagan, he finally convened a press conference in which he denounced Reagan's selection of Schweiker as "wrong and dumb. It was an act of desperation. It was a double sin inasmuch as it didn't work." Concluding that "the nomination contest is for all practical purposes over," he said he would support Ford, who had assured him that he would name a vice-presidential candidate who is "philosophically...
...crewmen reckoned that it was a Soviet sub, but tried shouting in Norwegian anyway to the seamen who began appearing on its deck. There was no response. Said Hamnen: "I guess they weren't too eager to talk with us. After all, it's pretty dumb when a modern submarine gets caught up in a fish net. It's supposed to carry instruments that can spot a trawler, cables and all, and avoid it in good time...
...Americans, led by Henry Fonda, are more rumpled and informal, but equally blessed with manly virtue. This evenhandedness, this unwillingness to question the military skills of anyone involved, of course, further vitiates the drama. Surely in this historical event someone somewhere made a really dumb boner, surely someone got hysterical, or at least lost his nerve...