Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Starting out in movies," Martin says, "I felt very confident that I could act, because I was too dumb to know better." Well, to start out, he could act, and he did get even better. Yet the Hollywood establishment has been his toughest audience. With All of Me in 1984, he proved that he could locate the soul of a character while surrounding it with spectacular physical comedy. The New York Film Critics Circle cited him as the year's best actor, but the academy did not even nominate him. His twisted turn as Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Drop Dead Sadist...
...their futures are often determined by the opening weekend's box-office take. And the feeling is that nothing brings the kids in like rumors of big action along a plot line full of hairpin curves. A lot of movies with bliss-out potential are blitzed out by loud, dumb conclusions. Like Stakeout. Like...
...told Woman's Own magazine, "If I played a practice game with ((Boris Becker)) when the women's final was on, we'd have more people watching us." Volleyed back Tennis Ace Pam Shriver: "He seems like someone who is a little narrow-minded and maybe a little dumb." Advantage Shriver, mate...
...Chrysler's ebullient chairman Lee Iacocca, it was a humiliating moment. "We're all culpable, and we made a mistake," he declared at a news conference last week. It was "dumb" and "unforgivable," he said, for Chrysler to have allowed employees to test-drive some of the company's new autos with their odometers disconnected and later sell the cars as new. That practice led to a grand-jury indictment against the company and two of its executives two weeks ago. Chrysler had vigorously defended its actions as normal quality-testing procedures in the industry, but amid a storm...
Says Lukas: "We weren't that superficial. We weren't that dumb. We weren't that apolitical...