Word: dangerfields
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seminar about press credibility or a talk show that isn't discussing it. The press has been on a binge of self-consciousness for some time. Since it regards itself as more reliable and more professional than it used to be, why does it get less respect than Rodney Dangerfield...
...relocates to the Idaho ruburbs and declares war on his "neighbor from hell" (Randy Quaid). Among the cast are < Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey, SCTV's Dave Thomas and the World Wrestling Federation's King Kong Bundy. Behind the camera is Alan Metter, who directed Rodney Dangerfield's 1986 hit Back to School. Since Moving was unavailable for screening last week, we can only wish Pryor good luck. Reynolds and Ringwald, though, may need the power of prayer. Their new pictures, Rent-a-Cop and For Keeps?, indicate that these engaging stars face a tough battle to win back...
Cable's pay channels -- primarily HBO, Showtime and Cinemax -- early on discovered comedy as a fertile source of original programming. With no network censors to contend with, stand-up comics had virtually free rein in language and subject matter. Comedy concerts featuring everyone from Rodney Dangerfield to Eddie Murphy quickly became staples of the cable schedule. Comedy series inevitably came next. Some, like Showtime's Brothers and HBO's 1st & Ten, have been only marginally different from routine network fare. But HBO's Not Necessarily the News, now in its fifth year, offers welcome dollops of topical (if frequently toothless...
...Well, Dad," the youth revealed, "while hitch-hiking in pursuit of your movies, I happened to be picked up by a big limousine bearing none other than movie cut-up Rodney Dangerfield and his friend, Paulina Porizkova. After a wacky series of misadventures, involving several cases of mistaken identity, a mix-up with a bag of jewels, and a wedding averted at the last moment, it turns out that Miss Porizkova is in love with me and that I am heir to a large industrial fortune. Excuse me, Father, but I believe the chauffeur is waiting." And with those words...
...Harvard ruggers are like Rodney Dangerfield--they don't get no respect...