Word: firebug
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...memorial service in an adjacent room. Ivan Reitman is the coarsest and canniest of directors; Meatballs, Stripes and Ghostbusters had no subtlety or style, but all profitably exploited Bill Murray's goofy hipness. Here, however, Reitman misreads the audience's pulse. The villain of Legal Eagles is a pathological firebug, and Reitman tries to play it like Arson and Old Lace. (He punctuates this theme with a performance- art piece by Hannah so bizarre it could empty movie houses quicker than a bomb threat.) Which leaves the top two stars to their own considerable resources of charm and mother...
...working again with his Producers writing collaborator Tom Meehan) has faithfully reproduced most of them on stage: Igor and his wandering hump; the steely Frau Blucher, whose very name incites the horses; the monster's visit to the cabin of a kindly blind man who turns into a bumbling firebug...
...case, declared Barton had intentionally disturbed the campfire circle to allow flames to travel out into the forest. He charged that there had been no letter; that John Barton denied ever writing letters to her; that her love-gone-bad story was the silly fiction of a cornered firebug. If found guilty on four arson charges, she will face 17 to 65 years in prison...