Word: clucked
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...good deal of money putting a personal twist on an old genre -- Lawrence Kasdan with his Wyatt Earp western, James L. Brooks with the would-be musical I'll Do Anything, Barry Levinson with his behind- the-screen Jimmy Hollywood -- and what happens? A big nothing. The critics cluck; the public stays home in droves. One hates to see ambitious artists fail, even if their fizzles can be more provocative than the minor films that become major hits. But somehow these men became estranged from their audiences...
...Berkery (4), Dowing (4), Walton (3), Winters (2), Chelus (2), Burke (2) Buxton, collgan. UNH cluck (2), Hare (4), Raiser, fellow (2), Karnan...
Hypnotism, I learned from these half-hour jaunts through caves and graveyards, was mystical indeed. In an instant, a person (or dog) could be drawn into a seemingly snooze-like state and become malleable to instructions like "cluck like a chicken." Hypnotism was a truth serum, a behavior transformation inducer, a trip into the unknown and untreated side of the human consciousness...
Okay, so Aleo's hypnotism may not make you reveal your innermost truths or compel you to "cluck like a chicken." It may not match the excitement of a Scooby-trance...
...enough that the Rock-a-Doodle shames Chaucer with its unnecessary modern twists and stupid screenplay. Chaucer's rooster would never cluck some of Bluth's bird's lines. "I've got a hole in my heart so big,:" the modern day Chanticleer drawls, "you could drive a John Deere tractor through it." Not the stuff of poets...