Word: handyman
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...papers, everything, just like that - how can it be that people don?t know the truth?? says Junker, who grew up in a German enclave of Romania and served in the Waffen-SS during the war, then came to the U.S. in 1955, worked as a janitor and handyman in Chicago and became a citizen some five years later. ?I?d wake up in the middle of the night and it would hit me. Because for 60 years it was taught one way. I said a long time ago I would do something about it, but I was farming...
...mother's lap. The other is a smiling, tough-looking, pompadoured fellow standing behind her. The baby would grow up to be Sebastian Junger, the mega-selling author of The Perfect Storm, the true story of a fishing boat lost at sea. The smiling guy was a handyman named Albert DeSalvo. History would come to know him as the Boston Strangler...
...contains such volumes as East of Edam, Brie Encounter and Fromage to Eternity.) Gromit, his master's fretful servant and savior, is mute. He conveys his always justified anxiety via minute twitches of the most eloquent movie eyebrows since Groucho's. At the climax of each film, Wallace's handyman hubris has put the duo in an awful dilemma that can be resolved only with a thrilling chase. Domesticity restored...
...fatal fall. The showiest part is the father (Eddie Jones), a brutal alcoholic who undergoes an overnight conversion, too late, into a sober and responsible man. His place as the family menace is then taken over by the son (Bradley Whitford), a sensible if none too bright handyman who becomes a bedeviled catatonic. Karen Tull is a giddy, then abruptly deadly daughter. The most remarkable aspect of Director Robin Lynn Smith's production is the showcase it provides for Kathy Bates, 37, who since her Tony-nominated performance in 1983's night, Mother has firmly established herself...
...began rummaging through his father's life and his own childhood, both of which were spent in Omaha, Neb. Rips discovered, for starters, that his father was raised in a brothel, which was run by Rips' great-grandparents. He revisited some vivid memories of his own childhood: a local handyman who always walked down stairs backward, a tornado that sucked his grandmother up through a garbage chute. When he was 9 years old, Rips watched a circus acrobat plunge to her death from a 50-ft. pole. (Naked Lady shares a kind of adolescent gothic vibe with Frank Conroy...