Word: bad-boy
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...Pain of Love)-promise the band at its naughtiest and nastiest, but Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are delighting here in twisting their band's carefully cultivated bad-boy image into a tight knot. All the Way Down takes a typically randy, amoral Stones musical protagonist and sets him up against a woman who is more than just his match. Undercover is a rough-and-tumble reminder that, as Jagger sings in It Must Be Hell, "The strength of darkness still abides...
...That demands talent, resilience, digital-watch timing, an amplitude of self-confidence that never spills over into arrogance, and Eddie Murphy has it all. But for people to like you is something else, something more difficult to define: a gift, a charm, a comedic sex appeal. Murphy's bad-boy street patter, with four-letter words used less to shock or threaten than to salt his jokes with the rhythm of machismo, carries with it an inner-city demand for respect. Then suddenly his handsome face flashes a good-boy dimple, and out of his mouth comes the laugh...
There is a sort of bad-boy joy in the act of stealing from admired betters that is preferable to the cautious quotesmanship of this film...
...Borg's request is not the typical whining of bad-boy greedy athletes seeking privileged status. His case is genuinely different...
...hurled four-letter words (the mildest was "scum") at the photographers and with malevolent glares set off shivers in their fellow travelers. Said one woman passenger in disbelief: "What are we flying with -a load of animals?" No, just the Sex Pistols living up to their bad-boy reputation as the prophets of British punk rock...