Word: butlerism
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...movies, The Bounty Hunter, starred that offscreen love pair Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler - Jenni-Butt to the gossip rags - in a romcom battle of the exes. Another, Repo Men, sent Jude Law and Forest Whitaker cavorting through a high-tech dystopia. The weekend's third big debut, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, boasted no stars, an inexpensive marketing campaign and low expectations from industry gurus. All it had going for it was a popular series of kid-angled novels by Jeff Kinney, who last year was named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People...
...stories of Detective Clarence “Tango” Butler (Cheadle) and Casanova “Caz” Phillips (Snipes) are interwoven in the film. Butler is an undercover narcotics cop in the projects, who has risen to the top of the business over the past few years. However, when Phillips, Butler’s old prison buddy and formerly powerful drug dealer, gets released from incarceration, problems arise. Cheadle is as charismatic as ever, endowing his character with the most emotion and authentic passion in the entire film. Snipes, while not as strong as Cheadle, also successfully...
...Staff writer Erika T. Butler can be reached at etbutler@college.harvard.edu...
Kathleen Wiedman-Butler WICHITA, KANS...
Over J-term, in the midst of an acute television binge, I happened upon a trailer insipid enough to jolt me out of my Jersey Shore stupor. The movie in question: The Bounty Hunter, starring Gerald Butler in the eponymous role as a vindictive, muscled man who violently kidnaps his ex-wife with all the sadistic merriment audiences have come to expect from the former King of Sparta. The trailer, in which a stiletto-clad Jennifer Aniston is stuffed in a trunk, handcuffed to a bed, and tackled, has such an air of comic exuberance that one almost expects...