Word: witless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaking with was none other than Mairead Corrigan, one of the founders of the Peace People movement in Ireland. She laughingly told me that she had once unsuccessfully tried to get out of a parking ticket by showing it to a policeman, and then answered my embarrassingly witless, though wellintentioned, questions about Ireland...
Richard Lester, who collaborated with Fraser on The Three Musketeers. The chore has fallen instead to Richard Fleischer, who possibly took on this benign project as penance for giving the world Mandingo. Fleischer has staged the film's many chase scenes and sword fights in his characteristically witless manner, but at least he keeps the narrative rolling noisily along. He also makes the most of his mishmash of a cast. Rex Harrison (as the Duke of Norfolk) and Oliver Reed (as Miles Hendon) are endearing good guys; George C. Scott's dry impersonation of a vagabond king...
Shame on you, TIME, for getting involved with the witless controversy over Randy Newman's hit, Short People [Jan. 30]. My initial impression of the song remains unchanged by all this brouhaha: it's a funny song about prejudice of any sort...
...plot is unoriginal; the acting unspectacular. If you go to see it, go to see what talented Douglas Trumbal, the special effects person, thinks extraterrestrial creatures and their space ships ought to look like. And go for escape. Moviegoers who have always found sci-fi flics somewhat witless will probably feel the same about this one, while those who have traditionally been awed by anything faintly supernatural are sure to get their money's worth. But do not be decieved. Close Encounters is, at best, fun, but not great...
With that, almost all information requests-worthy or witless-gained equal weight. An oddball claiming to be followed by Martians demanded and received the record of his "correspondence" with the FBI on the subject. Commercial firms can-and do-try to use Government files as a marketing aid. Example: one company attempted unsuccessfully to get the names and addresses of all people who had bought tax stamps for home wine making. The FTC, the Food and Drug Administration and the Defense Department are constantly turning back efforts by firms to acquire trade secrets of competitors. Says Barbara Keehn...