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FIRST COMES THE DOCTOR; THEN THE PRIEST; THEN THE undertaker; and finally, Sotheby's. When you come down to it, auctioneering is a lugubrious trade. It thrives on death, divorce and debt, and the pink, deferential Brit in the now empty Park Avenue living room is to upper-class America what buzzards once were to luckless prospectors in Arizona. When the famous die, the salesmen perk up--but the trouble is that the really good art and antiques do not necessarily belong to the really famous. Ergo, find a way of using their fame to endorse their possessions, and turn...
...brought together to live for several months in a home seemingly decorated from a Pottery Barn catalog. The cast members and locales change each year, but the formula doesn't. The producers assemble distinctive and contrasting personalities -- the current season, set in London, pits Neil, a bookish, anti-American Brit, against Mike, a McDonald's-loving Missouri jock -- and then wait for the inevitable clashes...
...beleaguered Brit had every reason to suspect that, at 34, just as his name was to appear above the title of his first big Hollywood film, his career was over--that he might be the new answer to the question, "Who is buried in Grant's tomb?" Public reaction to his $60 misunderstanding could cost 20th Century Fox, distributor of Nine Months, $60 million in box-office receipts. And his mug shot might be remembered longer than all his other pictures. On Friday's Today show, Katie Couric wondered, "When do you think you'll finally stop being asked about...
...film plunges into the world of stage comedy, its first scene is played not to the roar of the crowd, but to the roar of the sea at Black-pool, England. In a contraband exchange gone awry, we meet the disturbed Jack Parker, played by the sparkling young Brit, Lee Evans. In an apparent outtake from a David Lynch feature, Parker is left alone in the sea with a wax egg and two severed feet. Unlike a Lynch flick, "Funny Bones" will let you in on the joke, if you wait for the punchline...
...Tank Girl" is brill. Based on a witty, Brit-y, cool cult comic book, this live-action movie introduces a heroine who could erase bunny bimbo, Jessica Rabbit, with one irreverent stomp of her oversized MC boot. Tank Girl could be the product of a rather revolting orgy involving Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Madonna, and Courtney Love. She's the baby that could be born if Thelma impregnated Louise with a turkey baster. But at the bottom of her cliff, this girl's driving off in her tank, swigging from a Forty and laughing out loud...