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...Eisenberg, like Superbad's Michael Cera and their soul grandfather Woody Allen, possesses that ineffable something that makes it possible for him to be both a believable romantic lead and a bleater. He bleats his way through several unsuccessful job interviews. When he finally lands a job from the odd but endearing couple that runs Adventureland (Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig), he has the temerity to bleat about his assignment. He'd prefer Adventureland's slightly more glamorous Rides division, which he believes himself more suited for than Games. They shoot him down, with kindly conviction...
Fear of Tomatoes. The trouble started in December when Italian Tenor Ruggiero Bondino, 27, screeched out an unwritten high C in the first act of Traviata. "Bleater!" screamed the galleryites. "Go back and join your goatherd!" Later, for the benefit of Conductor Arturo Basile, they added: "Kill the conductor as well as the tenor!" Tenor Bondino beat a timorous retreat to his hotel under police escort. Early the next morning he fled back to Rome rather than face the en raged Parma gallery in other scheduled performances of Traviata. Soprano Rosanna Carteri, also appearing in Traviata, fainted from tension, wailed...
Besides such fancy guns as hand-tooled Mannlichers, the hunters carried brass horns and other noisemakers for luring a stag to his death. The most effective device, the bleater, is a small rubber squeezer, ball-shaped and equipped with stops. Properly manipulated, the bleater emits a "pia" like the cry of a newborn roe; it also trills a realistic "fiep," simulating the call of a doe in rut. The bleater instruction sheet suggests that the hunter render the fiep with "trembling hands," then promptly swing his gun to his shoulder and brace himself for the charge of a romantic roebuck...
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