Word: cages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high roller in Stick, explains his boss: "What the man likes is to rub up against danger without getting any on him. Make him feel like the macho man ... See, he sits there at the club with his rich friends? Say, oh yeah, I go right in the cage with 'em. They don't hurt me none...
...paid to go to plays and movies was attractive, but I had little grasp of the field. I soon discovered that show business is a business like any other; I learned, among other things, about grosses, film rentals and calculating break-even points. Covering rehearsals for Cats and La Cage aux Folles gave me other insights and an insider's appreciation for the sweat and hopes channeled into every Broadway opening. I also learned the price tag for attending film screenings: no matter how bad the film, everyone must stay till the bitter...
Vallone said he has thrown "a little b.p. [batting practice] in the cage" since tossing two thirds of an inning last year. That appearance--a two-run outing against Boston College--was his college debut...
...ageless contrivances of farce. Here, as in his scripts for La Cage aux Folles, L 'Emmerdeur (remade in the U.S. as Buddy Buddy) and Partners, Veber throws a tough guy and a soft guy into an improbable stew, mixes identities, spices with a gangster or two and stirs to a giddy boil...
RACING WITH THE MOON Directed by Richard Benjamin Screenplay by Steven Kloves World War II is going on out there, and in a matter of weeks Hopper (Sean Penn) and Nicky (Nicolas Cage) will report for enlistment. But that leaves time enough for them to punctuate their broody adolescent walks with leaps onto fast-moving freight trains, for Hopper to fall in love with Caddie (Elizabeth McGovern) and for Nicky to get his girl friend Sally (Suzanne Adkinson) "in trouble." These characters, and their problems, are the basic banalities of books and movies that insist on taking adolescence as seriously...