Word: dulling
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...first eminence, Lemmon was usually the nice Joe--"honest, thrifty, methodical, sober, upright and really kinda dull," as he says of himself in Phffft!--getting wooed by prime kooky blonds Judy Holliday and Kim Novak. With Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment and Irma la Douce, he was the shy gent pursuing a knowing woman, the lamb trying to persuade himself to be a wolf. But the Lemmon male was more in control when surrounded by men. From early service comedies like Mister Roberts through all the films in which he played Nellie to Walter Matthau's Butch (The Fortune Cookie...
...these menial tasks and the context in which they’re placed. Making copies in general sounds horrible, but making copies of a press release for a major press conference on a significant piece of legislation is oddly enjoyable. Calling random people and getting contact information sounds dull, but calling random famous people like Willie Mays and Paul Newman in order to update the Senator’s personal black book is not so bad. Catching the bus in the morning sucks at first, but driving up Pennsylvania Avenue past the White House and towards the Capitol makes...
...does not laugh. Tennis is sex and sex is tennis; never mind that the last time he mixed the two, he ended up in a broom closet. Without one, life is dull for him. Without both, life is death. Becker would like to fall in love again. For now, though, he's thinking about the green grass of England, and giving the world one more big bang...
...seems inconceivable that there was a time when Prada and Gucci were considered dull, cheesy or both, but with some effort, it's possible to recall a world in which the distinctive tan-red-white-and-black plaid of Burberry was thought to be appropriate only for the lining of Granddad's raincoat. It was three years ago, to be precise--before Burberry underwent radical image surgery and made a plaid raid on everything from bikinis to bags to little doggy coats and on everyone from Kate Moss to the wife of the British Prime Minister. Now such sensible...
...Marquand's work on the rest of the movie isn't nearly as successful, or true to Southern's style (the gaudy trailer included on the DVD edition of the movie has the ironic tag line "Is Candy faithful? Only to the book"). Though the middle section is downright dull - that's what fast-forward buttons and chapter stops were designed for - the finale is the sort of thing that could've only been dreamt up in the 1960s: the storyline has been neatly tied up, but the movie carries on, as our heroine strolls through a field, encountering every...