Word: chases
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ranks of those who have braved this indignity in the cause of laughter must be added Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short. They play a team of silent movie heroes who from a distance look like just the fellows to save a Mexican village from the depredations of El Guapo and his bandidos. Alas, the telegram inviting them to jump down off the screen and into the dusty Mexican streets is garbled in transmission; to the trio it reads like a bid to make a profitable personal appearance. And it arrives when they need money; their studio boss...
...usual, Martin (who wrote the script with Co-Producer Lorne Michaels and Songwriter Randy Newman) plays a fellow with misplaced confidence in his own shrewdness; Chase, for a change, plays a stupid man; Short is pretty much along for the ride, though he has the best actor's moment, choking himself up as he tells some bewildered children about the high point of his life, when Dorothy Gish praised one of his performances. There is a lot of good, broad comedy in Three Amigos!, notably an encounter with a singing bush that knows only public domain songs and Martin...
Finally, although second-place Yale has compiled a 5-1 league mark, the Bulldogs are the ECAC's lowest scoring team, having won four of their five games by a single goal. Only a very strong defense has kept the Yalies in the chase...
...Blake Moore took his LSAT's, he had every intention of beginning the paper chase immediately after graduation. The next fall, however, he found himself not in a classroom studying legal briefs, but in the locker room studying football plays...
...says the Other, eyeing a cockroach. "You go chase those papers, man. But be careful you don't catch any, those bastards get mean when you pin 'em down." So saying, he hurls the ladle at the insect which scampers under...