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...Then the wrongful death toll mounts, and Nick reluctantly takes on Danny as a junior partner in crime-solving (the snooty detectives call them "Crockett and Tubby"), and Hot Fuzz finally gets as agitated as the movies it's making loving fun of. By the end, Nick has morphed into a double Eastwood: the cop-Clint of Dirty Harry and the Western-Clint (in a three-way shootout) of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Fuzz: Lethal Weapons in Jolly Old England | 4/21/2007 | See Source »

When Langguth arrives at the actual war we feel sufficiently acquainted with William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, and other figures likely to show up on “Jeopardy...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The War That Assured Independence | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...stale and tired. He has come under attack for his flip remarks, like one calling Katrina evacuees in Houston "crackheads and thugs", but he has refused Bell's calls to withdraw. "This is not an election. This is a moment in history," he tells supporters. "This is what Davey Crockett died for at the Alamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: A Texas-Size Race for Governor | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...their names so they don't offend anyone with all that Jewishness? Emmanuel Goldberg changed his name to Edward G. Robinson, and Jonathan Leibowitz threw us all off the trail with Jon Stewart. How about if all the rest of the Jews do that too? I'm considering Joe Crockett. I also like the sound of Johnny Slayer. Plus, coming up with 14 million new names will be a kind of WPA project for all the Jewish writers. Because we have to back off the controlling-the-media thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe We Should Just Make Mel Happy | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...Crockett ’02, the former Ivy League pitcher of the year for Harvard, is now approximately 70 miles from the big leagues. The former third-rounder had a rough first start for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, yielding three runs in three and two-thirds innings for the Colorado Rockies’ Class AAA affiliate. He earned a promotion with a solid 4.00 ERA at Class AA Tulsa, mostly in relief...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mann Signs With Yankees | 9/14/2005 | See Source »

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