Word: dumber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...competition for which our hero is utterly unqualified but which he always wins, over some smarmy exemplar of the status quo and in a climax tinged with sentiment and demagoguery. After a Sandler speech in Billy Madison, the principal sagely notes that "everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it." That's how many people feel after watching a Sandler movie...
...taught. You did, however, confirm my belief that most teachers are only capable of imparting information to ready-made A and B students. Of course, there are a few good teachers, but they cannot overcome the inept system we have. After nine years of watching my dyslexic son feel dumber and dumber, I am taking him out of a system of neglect and home-schooling him. DEBORAH CURTIN Long Beach...
Rock plans to stick to comedies for now. "To me, Jim Carrey's most impressive work is Dumb & Dumber," Rock says. "It's society's ignorance about how hard comedy is that people go, 'Now he's really doing something in The Truman Show.' There are 30 guys in Hollywood who could do Truman. There's only one guy who could do Dumb & Dumber...
...ability to fully inhabit the creepy title character in The Cable Guy may have been what made that movie, his previous venture into somewhat more demanding fare, a box-office disappointment. Even his broadest comedies have their moments of genuine pathos. For instance: the scene in Dumb and Dumber in which, having briefly come to the end of his rope, Carrey's character stares out a window and says, "You know what I'm sick and tired of? I'm sick and tired of having to eke my way through life. I'm sick and tired of being a nobody...
Meanwhile, October Films will bring out Orgazmo, a feature-film porn parody written, directed and starred in by Parker, and produced and acted in by Stone. They are writing the screenplay of the prequel to Dumb and Dumber for New Line Cinema, and they are acting in BASEketball, a film by David Zucker, part of the team that made the Airplane! movies, which Stone and Parker greatly admire. BASEketball is shooting now, and Zucker says of his stars, "They're up all hours. They work all day on this movie, then they go and write South Park. They have people...