Word: fisherman
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...smooth football star on trial for the murder of his beautiful wife, no American prince plunging his plane into the black waters off Martha's Vineyard and, so far, no Monica. Yet cable is getting sky-high ratings for the first time since Donato Dalrymple, the house cleaner-fisherman, hid Elian from Janet Reno's SWAT team...
Originally hailing from Dublin, these boys even throw in an impressive cover of the Waterboys classic "Fisherman's Blues." Watch out, though-if you're looking forward to the familiar struggle to understand the Waterboys' lyrics, you'll be disappointed. Songs such as "Bodhran" (named for a traditional Celtic drum and pronounced "bo-ran") hint at just how amazing and fun a live band the Young Dubs must be. Baby, the Young Dubs ain't no Britney, but, then again, that's a good thing...
...questions about the film's subject matter, I did the same for The Perfect Storm. Did they slaughter real fish for the packing sequences? Did the PETA get upset - or are fish fair game for slaughter? Can you ever rid yourself of the fish stench if you're a fisherman? Would you get less dates if you can't get rid of the stench? Maybe a really strong cologne could hide...
...died at sea for their trade. Admittedly the film lapses into sentimentality at the end and Peterson never finds a particularly smooth way to shift between the Andrea Gail and the Coast Guard rescue, but with The Perfect Storm, he delivers a haunting ode to the life of the fisherman rather than just another soulless blockbuster...
...trying to outthink them because they move in a universe entirely previous to thinking, or to predictable pattern. They don't have Moby-Dick's baleful metaphysics, but sometimes fishermen work up a sort of Ahab feeling about them. They are giants, as freshwater fish go. The great muskie fisherman Len Hartman caught one weighing 67 pounds, 15 ounces in 1961 in the St. Laurence River, and the record is heavier still...