Word: ducked
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...Greetings indie weirdos," host Rainn Wilson said to open the show. "Here come the first motherf-----s to present the first motherf-----g award." At the chronically casual Spirit Awards, celebs wear jeans, snack on popcorn on the blue (yes, blue) carpet, duck into porta-potties parked on the sand, and usually wrap up all their low-budget revelry by dark. But this year, as a party-starved Hollywood convened under a leaky tent on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., the annual frolic over independent film seemed especially, well, spirited. With quirky low-budget movies like Juno...
Deer season, rabbit season, duck season: these have their places on the hunters' calendar. But in movie melodrama, shooting-the-President season knows no limits. Death of a President, the British fakeumentary that imagined the assassination of George W. Bush and the succeeding imposition of martial law by the new President Cheney, was a sensation at the Toronto Film festival in September 2006, though it had little impact when it opened in the U.S. six weeks later. Last March, Shooter pinned the murder of an unidentified U.S. Commander in Chief on Mark Wahlberg, who was then obliged to uncover...
...easy for me to come back to the alma mater and give a speech for free.” Reiss roused his audience into laughter with his deadpan jokes, comic timing, and clips from ‘The Simpsons’ and his new show ‘Queer Duck.’ He also shared his views on the current president (“Oh, I hate that leaky diaper of a man. He’s Satan with a learning disorder.”) and explained how oxymorons work (“for those...
...size and quality of the faculty, according to Haldeman and Wright’s letters. “I still have some things that I really want to accomplish,” Wright told The Dartmouth. “I don’t intend to be a lame duck in any circumstance.” Wright will not serve on the search committee for his successor, but may help the Board recruit potential candidates, according to The Dartmouth. He called on his successor to address issues of diversity at Dartmouth...
...Even so, two recent polls indicate that McCain is opening a substantial lead over Mitt Romney, whose main backer in the state is the unpopular lame-duck Gov. Matt Blunt. "We're down to a McCain-Romney fight," said Selck. "And it's my opinion John McCain is going to do well. Mitt Romney is the big-shot Easterner to all us poor folks. John McCain is a hero...