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[dreamer_easy]

Watching bits of Mr Smith Goes to Washington in between working on the women in Who article for DWM. Everyone keeps calling the journalists "ambulance chaser" - I thought that was a rude term for lawyers! I wonder if and when it changed...

ETA: Jean Arthur's character, Saunders, contributes the wonderful epithet "Horse radish."

*learns about filibusters*

Comments

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

I think it can describe anyone who, well, chases ambulances -- looking for a story, a client or whatever.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

Anyone who makes their cash off the bad fortune of others, basically.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Does the Women in Who article include glowing references to Romana saving the day all by herself in The Horns of Nimon, while the Doctor wanders about getting himself into trouble? That's one of my favourite stories, embarrassingly enough, because of that.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just realised that I think of people who are just too interested in the misfortunes of others as 'ambulance chasers'. People who get too much emotional gratification out of Rescue 911 and TV movies about still-fresh disasters.

[ikonsbykate.livejournal.com]

Lalla's actually taking the story seriously and doing her job, while Tom and Graham Crowden are being silly! Her scenes with Sezom are actually good, in the middle of lots of crummy stuff.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Absolutely - Lalla's Romana is easily my favourite of the female companions. Not so keen on some of the stuff done with her character in both Big Finish and some BBC novels, but she's still my fave from the TV.

Harry for the boys, though.