Word: dumbness
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...delayed my viewing of "Last Action Hero" was one of "Robin Hood: Men in Tights." A cheap Errol Flynn imitation drew six arrows and shot them. Afterwards, a bunch of guys danced around in tights and a voice announced "coming to a theater near you." Immediately, I heard the dumb movie alert...
...funniest and most agrestic of all his paintings were, undoubtedly, the cows -- a snook cocked at Picasso's heroic Spanish bulls. Kippered there on the canvas in their dense yet somehow airy paint, yearning, dumb and absurdly coquettish, they are among the most memorable animals in modern art. Several of them, like Cow with the Beautiful Muzzle, 1954, also contain some of the most inspired and wristy drawing of Dubuffet's career, formed by the brush -- or its handle -- dragging through the thick paint...
...Creator. The agent was allegedly told by the plotters that killing the pastor of the A.M.E. church would "stir the masses," that "half-assed revolutions" don't work, and that killing black leaders was the way to start the race war. One skinhead said that "an $ average dumb nigger" should be slain so the group could bond with blood. The violent rhetoric seemed at odds with some of the members' backgrounds. Fisher, the skinhead leader, is the son of a grade-school teacher and a computer- science instructor; neighbors say many of his friends are nonwhite. But the relative...
...here and count the stupid hours and the days and mark them off a dumb calendar as to my last moment, my last hour, my last kiss." Roberta sits in the forest-green dining room, sipping herbal tea out of a mug decorated with little footprints, hearts and the words IT'S A GIRL. How is she holding herself together? "People can't understand," she says. "They think I'm falling to pieces nonstop in front of Jessi. But I would never do that." And then Robby DeBoer breaks down, heaving and weeping. The cries are not plaintive, not whimpers...
...from 30% just five years ago. In the lands of cinema -- France, Germany, Italy -- Hollywood now accounts for two-thirds of all movie tickets sold, twice the share a decade ago. The standard explanation has been the economics of special effects: only Hollywood can produce the big, dumb, violent blockbusters that every earthling understands. But these days, movies like Sommersby and Groundhog Day do well in places like Taipei and Hamburg...