Word: cons
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...errors alike, introducing the audience to a cast of likeable but one-dimensional characters who (like the whole of the movie) are initially amusing but fail to develop depth. Stanford’s Rugged is a weasel of a man, so insecure and pathetic that his rapid-fire con-man act sounds more pitiable than convincing. Schneider’s Lagrand is a one-trick pony of affected mannerisms—a special-ed voice and a twitching hair flip—that becomes seriously annoying by film’s end, since he has copious camera time. In terms...
...this starting to sound familiar? Of course, it does. It's the sound of history repeating itself, the second time as farce. It's Max Bialystock, the crooked Broadway impresario in The Producers, after getting caught ripping off old ladies with Springtime for Hitler, trying the same con behind bars with Prisoners of Love. More to the point, it's Reagan as described in Stockman's own book: sunny and optimistic and never allowing himself to be confused by the facts...
...they're the new heroes. Cable's FX network has a stable of brooding, self-destructive, often violent, mostly male protagonists, from Michael Chiklis' corrupt but effective cop on The Shield (which returns April 3) to Denis Leary's alcoholic fireman on Rescue Me to Eddie Izzard's captivating con man on The Riches...
...still prefer a Republican for President over a Democrat. Much of it has to do with the individual candidates involved. In Clinton's case, as TIME pollster Mark Schulman points out, "with Hillary the Democratic front-runner, most voters have made up their minds about her, both pro and con. She may have limited upward potential against Republicans. The emerging anti-Hillarys, Obama and Edwards, suffer from low awareness at this point...
...they can do what they do best: claim to have the answers to everything without actually doing anything. After six years in power, Republicans have given us a massive deficit, a broken military, a loss of civil liberties and two disastrous wars. Of course they're smiling-they're con men with nothing to sell. David M. Caballero, Tucson, Arizona...