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...reconstituting of a family, and the last two Indy films are no exception. In Last Crusade we met Indy's father (Sean Connery) and learned that Indy's real name was Henry Jones, Jr. Indeed, "Junior" was Dad's apparently derogatory form of address for his son. That gag is repeated here, since - as everyone who's paid the slightest attention to pre-release scuttlebutt knows - Mutt is Indy's son by Marion. (Why is he called Mutt? Presumably because, as we learned at the end of The Last Crusade, Indiana was the name of the Jones family dog; Mutt...
...orders: "To preserve the dignity of the court and the integrity of the proceedings." That's an especially powerful, ironic argument, given widespread concern that Kelly is receiving preferential treatment because of his celebrity status. Ronald Allen, a Northwestern University professor of constitutional and criminal law, says gag orders and closed hearings are used rarely, partly to keep prospective jurors from being influenced by harsh or sympathetic news coverage. Still, Allen says, "The public does have a right to know, in a high-profile case, whether advantages are being given to the rich, or people in the public eye." Nevertheless...
...minor. In another strange twist, the Chicago Sun-Times reported last weekend that prosecutors will also call to the witness stand a woman who claims to have engaged in ménages a trois with Kelly and the alleged victim. Further complicating matters is Gaughan's gag order, which has terrified court clerks from releasing public documents that could help substantiate some of these claims...
...singer reluctantly settled the suits on the advice of his attorney. Kelly's attorney, Edward Genson - who, coincidentally, represented Mel Reynolds, the former Chicago Congressman convicted of having sex with an underage campaign worker - did not return calls seeking comment. Prosecutors declined to discuss the case, citing Gaughan's gag order...
...barely five minutes subjecting Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) to indignities in the Cuban lockup after they're seized for having a bomb--actually a bong--on a transatlantic flight. Instead we get a road comedy through the South. If we were to describe every gross-out gag in the film, this page would have as many blacked-out phrases as a heavily redacted CIA memo. We'll just say that in its luridly staged sexual humiliations, Harold & Kumar is right up (or down) there with Morris' movie...