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...length of a prison sentence has nothing to do with deterring crime. That theory is a crock. I mean, I've lived with criminals for 31 years. I know these guys, and myself. That's not the way it works. When the average guy commits a crime, he's either at the point where he doesn't care what happens to him, or more likely he feels he is going to get away with it. Punishment never factors into the equation. He just goes ahead because he feels he won't get caught...
...wasteland, where the meaty roles women get tend to be predators or sex kittens. "Hollywood is trying to resexualize its women back into submission," says Callie Khouri, screenwriter of the feminist buddy movie Thelma & Louise. "This whole idea that women are powerful because they're sexy is a crock. Sex isn't power. Money is power. But the women who do best in this society are the ones who are the most complacent in the role of women as sexual commodity, be it Madonna, Julia Roberts or Sharon Stone. If Stone hadn't spread her legs, would Basic Instinct have...
Muhammad's logic is akin to claiming that because you have Jewish friends, you couldn't possibly be anti-Semitic. And that's a crock...
...Bernie LaPlante, the small time crock who anonymously and impulsively rescues 54 passengers from a burning airplane, Hoffman seems to have melded his past movie roles into this one alternatively favoring the audience with his "spaz" act first culivated in Tootsie, and his catatonic one introduced in "The Graduate" and "Rain...
...that's a crock. They want their kind of publicity. They want people to come to their parties. But only the right people...