Word: dumberer
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...smash Ace Ventura Pet Detective. That rowdy farce, cagily directed by Tom Shadyac, earned $72 million at the domestic box office. Coupled with big expectations for Carrey's new fantasy-comedy The Mask, it kicked the actor's price from $750,000 to $7.5 million for headlining Dumb and Dumber, due early next year. He will also pocket $5 million as the Riddler in Batman Forever...
...endorse the use of the word nerd? Granted, the , supernerds may be engaging in unusual business practices, but that is no reason to deride their intellect. I am a high school honors student, and I have been called a nerd by people who are a lot dumber than I am -- and, believe me, I mean a lot. Since when is it a crime to be smart...
...more far out you claim the subject of the movie is, the dumber people will feel for not having "gotten it"--and the smarter they think that you, the film critic, are. Sort of like the emperor's new film...
Call me old-fashioned. My kids do. I'm old enough to remember when televisions were dumber than airport washbasins and didn't know you were standing in front of them unless you switched them on. But when I come home from a long day at the recycling plant, I still like to plop down on the ergolounger, crack open a microbrew, dial the teleputer to what we used to call a channel and just veg out. Don't get me wrong. I like the little programmable hostess who greets me every night on my flat-panel screen. In fact...
...things at once, watching the ball game on one corner of the screen, visiting Bangkok on another, jumping to whatever wild file server his punk videobot digs up. These onscreen hosts are supposed to learn more as they get to know your tastes, but I swear his gets dumber...