Word: dices
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...Country Girl" is part hokum, part harrowing portrait of an old performer (we won't say self-portrait). Odets' form of dramaturgy is to load the dice against the Kelly character, then let her load the gun against Crosby and Holden. Crosby is the least shrill; that is part of his drunk's cunning. Frank lies in the same melodic, trombonish tone that Crosby had used to project sincerity for a quarter century. But when he's not pushing the blarney, he gives subtle glimpses of the decay that age and alcohol etches in a man. His face is fallen...
...thus that I discovered a relentless campaign to bring us the ultimate dating show, "Who Wants to Date a Hooters Girl?", and a frenzied effort to sell Andrew Dice Clay (remember him?) transported back in time to ancient Rome to be the talent booker for "Colosseum...
...rock up onto another. "It gets even better over here," he promises, poking a boot into the mud for balance. We're climbing on a line of small boulders that form a joint down the middle of a gully as if they'd been rolled there like dice. "I'm gonna put a wooden walkway of some kind in here," he says, dodging a vine. Bush can look as if he's clanging around in a blue suit, but he doesn't look lost on the ranch in the Marlboro Man getup: worn black jeans, a blue work shirt...
...thinking that brought us Suddenly Susan, but there's a bit of truth in there too. Comedy that breaks--rules, conventions, boundaries of taste--is a tricky business. Break too much, and the audience hates you. (No one has asked Roseanne to sing the National Anthem or invited Andrew Dice Clay to a NOW dinner in a long time.) But break just right, and you get the deep-from-the-gut, disbelieving laughter that mere benders will never know...
...Bush lawyers are fighting hard to keep it under control. First, they asked that Clark recuse herself, having recently been turned down for a promotion in the judicial ranks by Gov. Jeb Bush. No dice. Then they asked Clark to consolidate the case with the Gore contest before Judge Sauls, as a way of tying all their fortunes to a case they have an excellent chance of slowing to a crawl. No dice again. The Bush camp appealed to the Florida apeeals court, and was denied...