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Samson's exasperation at these self-important triflers and their chirping Oxbridge accents is funny and justified, but it is also somewhat obsessive. He cannot stay away from the subject. He mentions an American agent who dresses too well, and this reminds him of Dicky Cruyer's kind: "The public-school senior staff at London Central spent just as much money on their Savile Row suits' and handmade shirts and Jermyn Street shoes, but they wore them with a careless scruffiness that was a vital part of their snobbery. A real English gentleman never tries; that was the article...
Everyone learned how to kiss from the movies. It is difficult to imagine what people did before Edison for instruction in the subject. They blundered through, no doubt, across centuries of bruised lips and chipped teeth, and the clumsy lunges that end with noses banging, or the woman accidentally mummphing a mouthful of beard...
...William Hurt, in 1981's Body Heat, to kiss his co-star with both hands up her dress. Open-mouthed kissing, the old "French kiss," in the past 15 years or so became common not only in movies but also in television dramas. Actors did not give the subject much thought until it came out last summer that Rock Hudson had given Linda Evans a passionate kiss on Dynasty when he knew he had AIDS. No one in Hollywood talked about anything else. The screen kiss suddenly became a frightening threat. In October the Screen Actors' Guild sent a letter...
...archetypal know-it-all neighbor, country style. Ernest P. Worrell oafishly offers his two cents on any subject before screwing up his face and yelling his trademark "Hey Vern!" But that screwed-up face is the most effective ad phiz in the biz, now that Clara Peller has stopped demanding "Where's the beef?" Five years after his first commercial, Ernest has become a national phenomenon, appearing in nearly 3,000 television ads, almost all of them for local sponsors in 100 TV markets. Last week, on behalf of a soft drink and a bed company, he began assaulting viewers...
...narrative continually reveals, Adams possessed a rare talent for winning the friendship of brilliant but difficult men and women, including Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe. Perhaps it was because he so seldom raised his voice. The memoir boils over only once, on the subject of the Reagan Administration's environmental policies, which spurred his worst fears about human predators nibbling at the land...