Word: dope
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...SUNSET BOULEVARD and 3) THE GREAT GATSBY Swimming pool as watery grave. In the opening sequence of Sunset Boulevard, the police rush to a murder scene where a corpse floats. The voiceover says, "The poor dope. He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end he got himself a pool, only the price turned out to be a little high." Ditto Gatsby, which ends as Sunset Boulevard began, with police and photographers peering into the bloody water at a man, full of bullet holes, who had wanted a pool to impress the girl whose voice was full of money...
...machine to all the chicks" or "the man who won't cop out when there's danger all about." Like Evers, he was a tough guy caught up in the movement for black freedom, a cocky straight shooter with equal disdain for bad cops and for dope-pushing mobsters--in short, the kind of hero who would have pursued the new Samuel L. Jackson incarnation of Shaft and nailed him for police brutality...
...governor of Texas. That's counterintuitive: Bush is short on facts and figures, and Gore is a buffed-up schoolmarm with murder in his eye. But I would tell Bush that all he has to do is to stay nice and loose, working Gore in a rope-a-dope sort of way, mocking him lightly, and wait for one of those openings that can produce a fatal sound-bite - something along the lines of Lloyd Bentsen's line in 1988: "I knew John Kennedy, and you're no John Kennedy!" (It occurred to no one at the time of that...
...Hugh Grant and Liz Hurley have separated "temporarily." Is this guy the biggest dope ever invented, or what? First of all, he cheats on her with a hideously ugly hooker; then, he makes a fool of himself with his whirlwind apology tour. As Jay Leno asked, "Hugh, what were you thinking...
...Forbidden City who intrudes himself on a mission to rescue Princess Pei-Pei (Lucy Liu), who, avoiding an arranged marriage, has run far, far away to Carson City, Nev. There she is enslaved by Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), an unredeemable bad guy who is exploiting Chinese railroad workers, smuggling dope and demanding a ransom...