Word: sourpuss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little spitfire," her second husband calls her. "Little Ms. Sourpuss" is how Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko describes her. Either way, Jane Byrne's fierce and feisty campaigning appealed to disgruntled Chicagoans, who often welcomed the underdog mayoral candidate with cries of "Give 'em hell, Janey...
...swinging it in my face all day," Bell noted later, "but when you beat a guy three-zip, there's no sense being a sourpuss about...
...word about nice Marcie, and since Oliver remains the same sourpuss he was at the beginning, why have we been asked to attend this stupifying tale? Is it that Erich Segal is attempting to atone for the indecent commercial success of his first story with the sober-not to say pompous-tone of this sequel? Or is it simply that his property somehow fell into the hands of Director Korty, who is one of the least spirited operatives around? Feckless questions about a feckless project, no doubt...
...Fresh off the boat from the continent, his wife having died on the voyage, Christian lands a job with the mortician who buries her. The mortician is impressed by Christian's good looks. On one of his first assignments for the funeral parlor, Christian is willingly seduced by Fanny Sourpuss, the young widow of an old multimillionaire garment manufacturer. Sued by the widow of a rich corpse that Christian has butchered in the embalming, he wins the suit by charming judge and jury. Women, including cafeteria acquaintances and wives of coworkers, fall at his feet. Christian is the parody...