Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, Jerzy Kosinski wrote a short novel about an idiot gardener who does nothing but watch TV, tend to his plants, eat and sleep. His screenplay for Being There could hardly be more faithful to the novel. According to Kosinski's metaphorical fable, the TV-idiot, Chauncey Gardiner (Sellers), bumps his way to the mansion of influential, dying financier, Melvyn Douglas and his younger, sex-starved wife Shirley MacLaine. So limited is Gardiner's intelligence that his communication consists only of child-like imitations of people he has seen on TV or references to his beloved garden. The hilarity...
...Johnny Unitas. Both near the ends of their careers. One meaningless game between two mediocre teams. They duel without every being on the field at the same time. In each series they seem worried that they'll never play again so it's all out, all afternoon. No short passes. Bombs. Rich Caster catches three. Forget who won. It doesn't matter...