Word: bum
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...film looks as if it has been painted on velvet. But the plot is pure wish fulfillment. DJay gets transformed from no-gooder to go-getter by beautiful music (when he's moved to tears by a church choir). Then there's the Rocky factor. That movie, about a bum turned hero, was a happy pill after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. Brewer sees his film as a return to workaday humanity. "We're in a time of tremendous problems in the world, and we've needed to escape to fantasy," he says. "Maybe now we're coming...
...among the upwardly mobile. And welcome, once again, to Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), which Paul Mazursky has revised in the process of remaking, possibly with half an eye on My Man Godfrey, that 1936 Hollywood parable of regeneration among the pampered class. This time the bum, who is not only rescued from suicide but given bed and board by the guilt-ridden paterfamilias, is played by Nick Nolte, and he makes a good job of it, especially if one's memories of shaggy Michel Simon in the original have been sufficiently dimmed by the passage...
...course, nothing then would have suggested that both Fitzpatrick and Tyler would be sidelined by injury later that year, thrusting Dawson into the spotlight and forcing him to shoulder significantly more touches than expected. But with the Crimson’s passing game grounded by Fitzpatrick’s bum throwing hand, Dawson certainly rose to the challenge, smashing a host of Harvard rookie rushing marks and establishing himself as an indispensable component of the Crimson offense...
...College students have taken a bum rap,” he said...
...sold him as a shy family man given to choice utterances like "He can run, but he can't hide" and, during World War II, "We are on God's side." The champion did not disappoint his public. He KO'd a slew of contenders in his famous "Bum of the Month" campaign of the '30s and '40s, obediently served in the segregated army, raised money for the war effort and spread racial amity...