Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What we get are the dumb blonde stewardesses from California ("Whenever my boy-friend sees a bedroom, he gets so heavy"), the middle-aged' matron leaning toward nymphomania who chases other people's butlers ("Wouldn't you rather come work for me, Charles?"), and the horny American businessman ("We'll talk about the deal later. How about fixing me up with you secretary...
Smith, 25, was perhaps more of a gamble. The whole production rests on the ability of the hero to combine two opposites, a sweet but dumb charm and an almost arrogant self-confidence. Smith showed both in audition. "He came in and sang one note-B-flat-over and over," recalls Leach, "and right off he informed us that he could pull it off. He even pulled Errol Flynn's picture out of his wallet...
...early reels. In any case, she appears to be less eager to be funny than she is to make a point, namely that men tend to be sexually exploitative, and crudely and rudely so. About all Private Benjamin adds to An Unmarried Woman, which made the definitively dumb statement about male piggery, is a Continental fillip. That French doctor, played rather sleepily by Armand Assante, starts out acting like a Gallic Alan Bates, sexy in a sweet and sympathetic way, but unlike Bates in the earlier film, he turns out to be no improvement on the Yanks. The revelation that...
...them"). But in general, the candidates agreed on the issues: a balanced federal budget but greater defense spending and less Government interference in personal lives. Probably the biggest mistake of the campaign was made when a Democratic Party leader said that it was dumb for a top-ranking officer to let himself be captured during the Viet Nam War. The voters let it be known that was no way to treat a hero by giving the underdog admiral the victory with 50.7% to 47.5% of the vote...
...days after she meets her future step-brother, Ben, she is ready to give up her mathematics professorship and take an administrative job she isn't really sure she wants, simply to be with him. The screenplay leaves it to Ben, a likeable ex-baseball player but admitted "dumb jock," to finally tell her how foolhardy it is for her to look to a man as the solution to her own problems...