Terms in Turnaround

(One had been production secretary on the $20 million Amazon epic that Viennese director Heinrich Schwartzer had just put in the can, the other had been serving time at the Allentown Prison Farm for embezzling $50,000 from Kaye Mainwarins' net position.) And they were struck dumb during a hondel when they didn't understand half of what was said. The words are most often applied to pictures recently released ("Making Love started out all right, then went down the tubes") or to actors undergoing a career crisis ("Timothy Bottoms was hot after The Last Picture Show, but then he went down the toilet"). Show selected excerpts of a movie to someone by literally placing pieces of paper between the layers of celluloid, thus signaling to the projectionist where to start and stop ("My client was so awful in that movie that I only wanted Lynn Stalmaster to see the scene where he flexed his pecs, so I papered the print").