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...Still not satisfied, Reiner demands that Brooks produce a birth certificate of some kind. Brooks answers, "We didn't have that then". Reiner prompts his subject, "So you were primitive." Nodding, Brooks elaborates, "We were primitive; we were atavistic; we were--what is the word I'm searching for--dumb...
...conversation stops. Everyone stares as the man accused of conducting an 18-year campaign of terror as the Unabomber walks to his seat. Even the prosecutors stop shuffling their papers to sneak a glance. But anyone expecting the self-confident strut of a killer who once branded his victims "dumb" and the FBI "a joke" will be disappointed. Ted Kaczynski's courtroom demeanor is almost timid. From the way he sits in his chair, hands folded, to the deferential behavior he shows his attorneys, he moves with the exaggerated politeness of a guest who doesn't quite know...
...recent afternoon in Rhode Island, Connor was asked how such a smart guy could be so stupid as to be sitting behind bars, yet again, in a pair of mustard-dumb prison-issue duds? Connor didn't have much of an answer. But 40 minutes to the north, at the Norfolk County Jail in Dedham, Mass., Billy Youngworth did. Youngworth, 38, who as a boy took martial-arts lessons from Myles and has had a parasitic relationship with him ever since, said Myles, a member of Mensa, is endlessly interesting and charming, "but he attracts mutts." Billy being Exhibit...
...that money plays almost as big a role in people's lives as sports. I headed home to my wife and kids. Perhaps it was the screeching headlines waking the bears from hibernation, but I awoke at 2:30 a.m. that night. I couldn't believe I had been dumb enough to buy in that last half-hour. And I had told everybody about...
...monkeys in front of mirrors, goes on secret undercover missions of silliness and gets himself arrested in an airport simply for being Beanish are the film's only redeeming moments. Unfortunately, the contrived sappiness of the plot takes what should have been divinely inspired idiocy and makes it merely dumb...