Word: dumbness
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...desperate preparation for an unscripted ceremony, the audience was treated to a plethora of clips of awards past. I knew it was going to be a tedious affair when Jack Nicholson introduced a montage of every single Best Picture winner—wholly unnecessary and a reminder of how dumb some of those picks were. (“Around the World in 80 Days”? Really?) At least some of the clips of acceptance speeches from decades ago provided a glimpse into what the Academy Awards were like in the bygone days, before Nicholson was given his perma-spot...
...would lose? Hillary's tears in New Hampshire rusted the iron lady a little, but wasn't that just a brilliantly tactical softening of her image at the precise moment it was called for? Maybe. But maybe she just got tired and cried. And maybe Bill just said something dumb. And if the Clinton campaign crashes and burns, maybe she was just another politician with name recognition and a lot of money who ran for President and never connected. There's far more precedent for that - ask Presidents Dewey or Stevenson or Humphrey or Thompson or Romney - than there...
...carry listeners through the least-inspired of Merritt’s lyrics, the boring melodies of “Courtesans” renders it an unremarkable finish to a remarkable comeback album. “Zombie Boy,” for all its weirdo-appeal, is choppy and dumb, and a second listening doesn’t pay off. Perhaps the most glaring misstep with “Distortion” is that it continues Merritt’s obsession with the concept album: his commitment to an explicit theme can hinder as much as it enhances...
...prop bets are based on either luck or sports knowledge. I needed a Super Bowl bet based on my nonfootball expertise, something that would make me feel smart on a day I feel dumb. So I called oddsmaker Art Manteris to see if we could come up with a bet that he would post on all 19 sports books he runs for Station Casinos. Manteris, author of Super Bookie, was responsible for making proposition bets a huge business when, in 1985, he offered 20-to-1 odds at Caesars Palace that an incredibly fat defensive lineman named William (the Refrigerator...
...year-old actor is explaining why he made this Rambo, which seems like a dumb career move after 2006's Rocky Balboa. Stallone?pretty much hitless since the 1980s, when he was one of the biggest box-office draws in the world?wrote, directed and starred in the sixth installment of that dead franchise and emerged with a critical and commercial success. Rocky Balboa was a touching, honest, personal look at longing for past glory; Stallone held off from pandering so much that it didn't even have a training montage. But Rambo?the fourth one, and the first...