Word: barts
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...publicist whose pathological impatience is both his greatest asset and worst liability, is left to take care of their baby, a daughter he names Gertie. Unable to cope with his wife’s death or his new role as parent, Trinke immerses himself in work until his father, Bart (George Carlin), refuses to take care of Gertie any longer. Flustered, abandoned, and completely covered in baby powder, Trinke has a very public nervous breakdown at a news conference. Though Affleck should never attempt to cry on film (or say the line “I’m gonna...
...dies in childbirth less than 15 minutes into the movie, and Trinke is left to take care of their baby, a daughter he names Gertie. Unable to cope with his wife’s death or his new role as parent, Trinke immerses himself in work until his father, Bart (George Carlin), refuses to take care of Gertie any longer. Flustered, abandoned, and completely covered in baby powder, Trinke has a very public nervous breakdown at a news conference...
...DIED. BART HOWARD, 88, who wrote Fly Me to the Moon; in Carmel, N.Y. The song, whose original title was In Other Words, became popular in 1960 after Peggy Lee sang it on The Ed Sullivan Show, though Frank Sinatra's version is better known. Howard, who had been writing cabaret songs for two decades, said, "It took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes...
...guess "Dr. T." left out some prime Geisel, but there's more of it here, in more concentrated form, than anywhere else. In one scene Dr. T. takes Bart and Zabladowski on a tour of his dungeons, where various musicians are being tortured. "The lovely rumbling sound you hear" BOOM! BOOM! - "is one of my favorite prisoners. He was a bass drummer in an orchestra I once conducted. Do you know the part in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony where the drummer is supposed to go 'ah-boom-boom-boom Boom'? Well, this stupid lout always went 'ah-boom-boom-boom...
...fantasy than a nightmare - with horrible heights, long chases, the loss of a mother's love - the movie ends in anarchy: Dr. T.'s musical plan is foiled, the kids run amok and a Rube Goldberg-style A bomb blows the whole place up. (By now Bart Collins has outdone Bart Simpson on the destructo scale.) Not since Jean Vigo's "Zero de Conduite" have filmmakers so fervently called for a revolt of the underage. Even the laconic Zabladowski falls under Bart's revolutionary spell. "People should always believe in kids," he says sagely. "They should even believe their lies...