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...while the dummies search fruitlessly for its heart and brain. A financially strapped TV weatherman (John Travolta) tries to rip off the state lottery while basking smugly in his local celebrity. Lisa Kudrow is hilarious as his permanently irate accomplice, and Bill Pullman is divinely clueless as the dopey cop pursuing them. It is all, again like our politics, occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lucky Numbers | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...choice a single mother of a baby boy. How can I rear my son so that he doesn't turn out like the dopey guys I continue to meet? CAROL LINARDUCCI Spring Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 18, 2000 | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...nipple and penis jokes, the wild cackling or the dopey foreign accents that keep the laughs coming? In Robin Williams' weekly audio show on audible.com it's all that and more. With his acrobatic voice as his only prop, the comic becomes instantly more likable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Broadcasting From New Ork | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...necessarily a return to the excess-ridden '80s or the dopey conglomerates of the '60s. But cross-industry takeovers hit a 10-year high last year, when 22% of companies taken over in the most acquisitive industries were not in the same business as their buyer, according to research firm Securities Data. That's up from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangerous Merge | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

Sarandon's Adele August is running away from nothing very much--a boring small-town life and boyfriend--and she's not running toward much either--a dopey dream that life in Beverly Hills is bound to be more exciting. She is one of those irritating people who cover wrongheadedness with eccentric excess. This is supposed to be charming, but it is merely tiresome. Portman pouts prettily at Adele's all too predictable capers--naturally she forgets to pay the utility bills, misreads her daughter's dreams and that handsome orthodontist's intentions. But you can feel these beats coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Travels with Mommy | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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