Word: devito
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson batsmen were limited to four hits in the first game, but scored the deciding run in the bottom of the first. Designated hitter Tom Konjoyan was hit by Huskie Jim Walker's errant pitch to start the attack. When Walker's pickoff attempt eluded Dan DeVito's stretch at first, Konjoyan advanced to second. Freshman Marcel Durand's single and Co-Captain Frank Caprio's sacrifice fly to deep left field brought Konjoyan home for the only run the Crimson would need...
Ubert, who walked five in the contest, was threatened only in the second inning, which he opened with a free pass to DeVito. Dan Mahoney struck out and Dave McMullin popped up to left, but Ubert faltered and walked designated hitter Chuck Allard. A throwing error by catcher Frank Morelli moved both runners into scoring position, but Ubert squelched the rally by whiffing Jim Pierce...
...terms, they wear the mask of the Me-First '80s only to reveal the crinkly face of '30s romantic farce. Two of them boast the most ingratiating doll faces in today's Hollywood: the cartoon countenance of Goldie Hawn, in Overboard, and the Garbage Pail Kid visage of Danny DeVito, in Throw Momma from the Train...
There are only several moments when it seems obvious that Momma is DeVito's directing debut. The movie starts off at a breakneck pace that it just barely manages to maintain. But just when you think that DeVito is running out of energy, he comes up with even a sharper sight gag, or Stu Silver's script comes up with another great line...
Throw Momma From the Train is a funky, silly comedy which shows that Danny DeVito has great promise as a director of comedy. He may look like "a troll that should be hanging from a rear view mirror," but he thinks like a combination of Rod Serling and the Roadrunner...