Word: stools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Byzantine as the stock market. Instead, The Brotherhood concentrates on the microcosmic death struggles of a single Mafioso family. Frank Ginetta (Kirk Douglas) is the son of a deceased "soldier" of Murder Inc. days. Like his father, Frank still kills in the same old way, ordering a stool pigeon shot in a New Jersey dump, then stuffing his mouth with a symbolic canary. But Frank's college-educated brother Vince (Alex Cord) has acquired new credit cards of identity. Not for him the violent memories, the long jags on vino, the crude labor racketeering. His work is the more...
...Ernie bummed a ride to Florida and fought for himself. He led the first three leagues he played in, in hitting, but he never quite made it with the Washington Senators. So he had settled in the high minor leagues and now, at 34, he sat on a stool in a hamburger joint in Augusta, Ga., and said the current season with the Charlotte Hornets (Class AA Sally League) was his last because his legs and his eyes were gone...
...mean to his brothers and sisters, and when he wants something and I don't give it to him right away, he throws a temper tantrum." If Mother seeks medical help, the doctor is soon exasperated as the little monster upsets ashtrays, spins the examining stool, snaps the tongue depressors, and tries to grab the guppies in the fish tank. At such moments, says California's Dr. Daniel M. Martin, "it behooves the doctor to suppress that 'urge to kill' look in his eyes...
Producer Schlatter, who is in charge of these tapings, also acts as referee and muse. Burly, bearded, he sits atop a tall stool in the studio, juggling phones, flipping through scripts, arguing with the censor and, occasionally, pinching the behind of any girl who is careless enough to stray within range...
...Although accounts of his death vary, the most persistent version is that he succumbed to yellow fever and toppled from his stool during a recital in Rio de Janeiro while performing a composition of his called Morte...