Word: baxter
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...directorial debut, Showalter also writes and stars as Elliot Sherman a.k.a. The Baxter. A “Baxter” is “the kind of guy you settle with because you can’t be with the one you love.” Elliot Wilbur Sherman is as exciting as toothpaste. The man reads the dictionary...
...true credit to the film is the acting; many of Showalter’s former cast members (David Wain, Michael Ian Black, Elizabeth Banks, and Paul Rudd just to mention a few) of “Wet Hot American Summer” return for “The Baxter.” Michelle Williams has left her “Dawson’s Creek” days far behind, believable as awkward and loveable Cecil Mills. Justin Theroux, bizarre and oh-so-spooky in “Mulholland Drive,” steals several scenes, including a hilarious inversion...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER wrote, directed and stars in The Baxter, a film about an accountant women date until they meet the One. But this CPA just may get love after tax season...
...Billy Baxter has been a winner all his life, but he works at it. A professional gambler and a three-time World Series of Poker champion, Baxter earns enough to afford a $1 million home in Las Vegas. But last week Baxter claimed his sweetest pot of all in a Reno courtroom: a $178,000 refund from the Internal Revenue Service...
...case grew out of an earlier IRS ruling that Baxter's $1.2 million gambling winnings for the years 1978 to 1981 were unearned income--in the same category with dividends and interest. Under the tax laws that applied for those years, unearned income was taxable at the maximum rate of 70%. Baxter said the money was earned income, like a salary, which was taxable at a top rate of 50%. In 1984 he filed suit, contending that his winnings were the product of skill and hard work. Last week the U.S. district court in Nevada agreed and ordered...