Word: dumbness
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...became ill after eating seafood chowder that had been laced with PCP. Cameron rejects the idea that someone was avenging the director's high-handed behavior. "It would be easy to say the crew was disgruntled, but it was the last night of shooting [there]... It would be a dumb time to disrupt things," he reasons. Police have yet to crack the case...
...they are not in religious orders; they're professors at secular Columbia. But they are caught in the grip of a really dumb idea. He thinks all his problems in life derive from his inability to stay out of the beds of sexually desirable but otherwise destructive women. He decides instead to form a companionate liaison with a woman who is his mental equal, but is otherwise--how to put this gently?--a bowwow. Rose, we are to understand, is so desperate that she goes along with him, thinking that once they're married his resistance to her will break...
MOVIES . . . THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES: Two Columbia professors, Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges) and Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand), are caught in the grip of a really dumb idea. He thinks all his problems derive from his inability to stay out of the beds of sexually desirable but otherwise destructive women. He decides instead to form a companionate liaison with a woman who is his mental equal, but is otherwise -- how to put this gently? -- a bowwow. Rose, we are to understand, is so desperate that she goes along with him, thinking that once they're married, his resistance...
...firm in his commitment to continue being a media gadfly. He mentioned, however, the difficulty of finding "people with politics" to staff the show. "It's just a pitiful state of satire in this country," he said, complaining of the domination of "junior high school, boy's locker room, dumb humor" naming as an example the Harvard Lampoon. He then ticked off his personal list of requirements for a staff member: satire experience, but also chutzpah, political convictions (his, probably), and a sense of humor. "I'm serious. If you have these things, we're looking for you," he said...
Back to the point now. If a movie is dumb, the Harvard men's hockey team won't mind, as long as there's enough blood. And in "Youngblood," the climax is not a goal but a fight...