Word: cluelessness
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...Governor of the state of California." It took Gorton until after the commercial break to figure out that Schwarzenegger wasn't joking; the crumpled statement was still in Gorton's hand as stagehands ejected him from the studio for using his cell phone to begin alerting Schwarzenegger's other clueless advisers...
These are kids with enough disposable income and not too much parental dominance. They ought to be loose and happy, listening to bubble-gum pop, painting their toenails outrageous colors and mooning over clueless boys. Instead they are tense and miserable, brooding, whining and flirting with self-immolation in the hormonal fire storm that rages in all of them...
This is a big change from as little as a decade ago. "When I first went around with the script for Clueless, everybody passed on it because it was from a young girl's point of view," says director Amy Heckerling. "They thought maybe it would be O.K. on Nickelodeon, but young guys were who you wanted to get into theaters." Now the girl-centric movie is proving to be as popular an entertainment as the boys' big-bucks shoot-'em-ups. The newest chicklet flick, Freaky Friday, opened to surprisingly strong reviews and box-office numbers last week...
Dick Bass, a Texan who salts his speech with darlin' and dadgum, was 51 years old and clueless about expedition climbing when he decided to summit Mount McKinley in 1981. Bass, the owner of Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Utah, had no idea McKinley was among the hardest U.S. climbs. He made the decision to brave the elements after a particularly tough employee pronounced that he would never cut it on the mountain. Bass vowed to prove her wrong. "I didn't even know how to put a tent up," he says. But off he trudged, defiantly...
...there's plenty of it. The picture, directed and co-written by Gregor Jordan from Robert O'Connor's novel, plays like a mini-series compacted into 95 minutes. It develops a severe case of character sprawl: a clueless colonel (Ed Harris) and a hard-nosed top sergeant (Scott Glenn) and their respective women (Elizabeth McGovern, Anna Paquin)--both of whom cozy up to Elwood--plus lots of troublesome MPs and outsiders who stand in Elwood's way as he plans the big score. What's worth savoring is Phoenix's performance, cool and alert, confiding only in the camera...