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Fishing: a line with a worm on one end and a fool on the other. That definition seems as good as any. The bait may vary, but at the other end of the line, nothing is altered. At about this time each year, eager anglers pour down to lake shores and riverbanks in search of fresh-water fish. And each year, despite millions of dollars spent on equipment, despite the cleverest lures in history, the fisher folk are doomed to interminable hours of unsuccessful casts, tangled lines, spurned bait and impaled thumbs...
...terrible at arithmetic." Slingerland says. "Fox asked me if we had a calculator, and of course we didn't. Like a fool, I couldn't prove to him what was wrong with that 17.5. Because it's very complicated...
...said last week, wearily drawing on a cigarette, "was shift some of my accountability to where it rests. But I was the fool. I blew it. The Dean knows more than...
...years of grinning widely and being patted on the head, he drags his feet in a shuffle. And yet he can rebound with astonishing strength and resolve. Jordan makes Russell an intricate blend of contradiction and sorrow, who sometimes acts foolishly and other times proves he is nobody's fool. The family's other members, played by Geogory Pennington, Michael R. Russell and Angela D. Lee, are comfortable with the old man, whose stories and fibs they know so well. Each recognizes and to an extent depends on the others' quirks and idiosyncracies; together they weave a delicate family structure...
Godard. The chic attitude nowadays is to be down on Godard. He wasn't actually as important, self-appointed arbiters declare, as we thought he was during the '60s. A stylish innovator, perhaps, but without content. That's probably true for an early, exuberant fool-around film like Breathless, a quick-paced sort of Bogart parody. Pierrot Le Fou is more ambitious and more complex, however, and so the revisionists had better look twice before they go about their revising...