Word: dangerfields
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...secured TV fame playing a gnomish cab dispatcher with a heart of gunk. Not, you might say, Hollywood's idea of a leading man, unless for a Muppet remake of Rumpelstiltskin. But in today's Hollywood, where the hottest teen idol is a 64-year-old named Rodney Dangerfield, anything is possible. So why not Danny DeVito as the topliner of the highly liked summer hit Ruthless People? Or as the scene stealer in a rock video touting a previous hit, The Jewel of the Nile? Or as the voice of the sweet-souled Grundle King in the cartoon feature...
Perhaps the Theatricals wanted to prove that today's liberated man can wear high heels on stage and win the Vietnam war on film. Perhaps a large caliber handgun was applied to certain key foreheads. Perhaps the Pudding actually wanted to get Rodney Dangerfield but the invitation was delivered to the wrong address. Perhaps huge sums of money changed hands via numbered bank accounts in Bermuda. Perhaps the insanity defense is applicable. Who knows...
Iacocca claims that before he took Dale Carnegie courses at age 25, he was a terrible speechmaker. Nowadays in public, and often in private, he seems more a crackling stand-up monologuist than a sober corporate spokesman, a sort of Rodney Dangerfield who gets all the respect in the world, or George C. Scott's Patton turned happy and unthreatening. "I gotta tell ya," Iacocca told a wined-and-dined gathering of stock-market analysts in Detroit earlier this month, "with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really, it's almost obscene...
Carter found time during his 85 minute presentation to joke about the lack of respect he has received since returning to Plains, Ga With a nod to Rodney Dangerfield. Carter spoke of a Trivial Pursuit question recently posed to him: "Do you know who said. When I look at my children I wished I had remained a virgin" After brief applause, Carter said. "I he answer was my mother...
Jackson is better at inspiring hopes and dreams than he is at designing specific programs to help the poor. His critics are biting on this score. Says Elections Expert Richard Scammon, a conservative Democrat: "Jesse Jackson is a black George Wallace-a Rodney Dangerfield. He wants respect. It's a scream for attention. He has no real program. He doesn't know what he's doing." In private, one of Jackson's Democratic rivals is almost as caustic. "There's still one speech Jackson hasn't given yet," he says. "We still haven...