A real screamer. Paul Newman is alcoholic former athlete fighting with his unloving father and his wife (Elizabeth Taylor). He won't sleep with Liz because of the death of Scooter, his buddy, which he blames on her. Weird plot--she sort of seduces Scooter to get Paul Newman (Brick) to see that his good friend isn't so good, but then changes her mind and doesn't sleep with him. (!?) Scooter then calls Paul Newman who hangs up on him--what a phone call I was thinking of sleeping with your wife and --. After Newman hangs up, Scooter jumps out the window. (All off screen.) At the end, Newman reconciles with both Dad and Liz, deigning to sleep with her. Ha! What a sacrifice!
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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