Typical Winchellisms were : " shafts " for legs, " cinemaddicts " for movie lovers, " moonpitchers " for movies, " Joosh " for Jewish, " Reno-vated " for divorce and " making whoopee " for, well, making whoopee.
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And while his beat was ostensibly Broadway, his punchy prose, with its three-dot ellipses between items, plumbed subjects that heretofore had been politely ignored : Who was seeing whom, marrying, divorcing, " infanticipating " or " making whoopee " ( to the chagrin of their mutual spouses ).
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But inevitably the mind drifts to the Michelle Pfeiffer backlist, recalling the woman who undoes Jack Nicholson's bedside handcuffs in " Wolf, " or the lounge singer who drapes herself over a piano in " The Fabulous Baker Boys, " cooing a heart-stopping rendition of " Making Whoopee ."
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They also added phrases into the lexicon, from " Come on down . . . " ( " The Price is Right " ) to " Making Whoopee " ( " The Newlywed Game " ) and " ` And heeeeeeeeerreee they are " ( " The Dating Game " ).
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Along the way, she ventriloquizes " Play a Simple Melody " with a look-alike doll and sings dry comic versions of standards ( " Making Whoopee " and " Let's Do It " ) and modern show tunes ( " Broadway Baby " from " Follies, " and " Fifty Percent " from " Ballroom . " ).
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On " The Newlywed Game " ( reruns are shown weekdays on the Game Show Network ) a husband and wife spilled their most intimate secrets while trying to predict each other's answers to kitschy, insinuating questions . ( " What's the weirdest place that you've ever gotten the urge to make whoopee ? " ) The couple might win a refrigerator but would definitely win momentary fame.
