Word: cobb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roadsters, electrical engineer training courses endorsed by Thomas Edison, and a notice that Macy's Department Store will be moving to Herald Square accompany notice of a Washington Senators victory. Rube Marquard and Smokey Joe Wood no-hitters, and boxscores full of names like Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb and Fred Merkle. Indeed, Ritter introduces many players with excepts from Spalding's Base Ball Guide circa 1909, John J. McGraw's My Thirty Years in Baseball, a scene from The Great Gatsby, or a snatch of Carl Sandburg poetry...
When Professor Cobb** chose to resign...
...Henry N. Cobb. Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
...Roger Cobb (Steve Martin) has this little problem: the spirit of a dead woman inhabits and controls the right side of his body. The semitranssexual dilemma is no miracle of genetic engineering but rather a goof-up of Oriental mysticism. Seems that Roger, a 38-year-old lawyer drifting through a mediocre career and toward a no-thrills marriage with the boss's daughter, was named executor of the estate of Edwina Cutwater (Lily Tomlin), one of the world's richest, coldest, frailest and ditsiest women. Edwina had engaged the services of a swami, sect undetermined, to transfer...
...display of schizophrenic coordination. Watch right-side Edwina take control in a courtroom, as left-side Roger falls asleep and the ever-so-feminine Edwina moves "their" body in a grotesquely macho strut. The actor's challenge is impossibly complicated−Steve Martin playing Lily Tomlin playing Roger Cobb−and beautifully realized. The rest of All of Me is no tour de farce; some jokes are missing, others misfire, and the visual style is deadpan and pedestrian. But Tomlin gets laughs and poignancy from a character who for most of the film is visible only when Roger looks...