Word: bagley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Okay, hold on Celtics fans. Yes, Larry is back, and after bidding arrivaderci to point guard Brian Shaw, the green Machine picked up John Bagley and Ed Pinckney as fine-tuned working parts to go with Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Reggie Lewis and Dennis Johnson. But don't start feeling comfortable atop the Atlantic Division standings just...
Take that title literally. Under pressure to come up with an advertising campaign for a new pimple cream, hard-charging Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) develops a nasty little boil on his neck. Ah, yes, a psychosomatic symptom, bound to happen to anyone with a conscience who is trying to sell patent medicine. The viewer settles back comfortably, prepared for some nice English silliness about a chap trying to muddle through a trying situation...
...When the boil comes to a head, it is a head. It has eyes, nose and a foul, funnily flapping mouth -- Bagley's id made manifest and shouting down his superego like some corporate raider ragging management at a stockholders meeting. Goodbye, Ealing Studios. Hello, Kafka. And for a while, pretty good Kafka. As he showed in Withnail and I, director Bruce Robinson has a truly weird sensibility, and Grant is his kind of guy, an actor morosely and ferociously resistant to normalcy and good cheer. In a story in which his wife (a spiritless Rachel Ward), his boss...
...that either party might resort to raising the national cigarette tax, which has already gone up from 8 cents a pack to 16 cents in the past five years. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco channeled $100,000 to the Republican Party, but that was offset when a Reynolds tobacco heir, Smith Bagley, donated $100,000 to the Democrats. "Many big corporations give both parties $100,000," says a Republican fund raiser...
...hear the bird screeching?" crows bass Don Bagley as he juggles the 40-lb. silver trophy. "It makes the hair stand on your neck." Bagley, 48, exults, "It's taken me 27 years to get up here. It will take 27 to get down...