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...Body") Ventura starred on the professional wrestling circuit in the 1970s and '80s, he was usually cast as the bad guy. Decked out in a feather boa, sequins and the kind of oversize designer glasses Elton John made famous, the 6-ft. 4-in. Ventura would flex his muscles, glower at opponents and spit out such gems of wrestling wisdom as, "Win if you can, lose if you must, but ALWAYS cheat...
...Sosa fans were the fans of the underdog; he was black, he was Dominican, and he was pill-free. He had the little body (by comparison) and the big smile. Teddy-bear-on-the-inside or not, McGwire was the hulk. The one with the glower. The one who was supposed to break Maris's record, if you could say that about anyone, and in that way it turned out right. Who but McGwire, after all, could not just pass Maris, not just leave the pesky Sosa behind, but keep piling on the homers until he hit a nice round...
Mike's wife often said, "Mike likes to spend his Sunday mornings railing at the Archer Daniels Midland Company." For years Mike religiously watched This Week with David Brinkley. Whenever an ADM commercial came on, Mike would glower and recite the latest figure on how much campaign money ADM had given politicians who supported ethanol subsidies. Whenever the announcer said, "ADM--supermarket to the world," Mike muttered, "ADM--superbriber of the pols." What particularly galled Mike was that through his pension plan, he was an ADM stockholder. "I'm paying for this," he often said...
...Playing Clinton was former actor and good ole boy Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson. Dole was getting advice from so many people that one suggested too many cooks were at work. Main advice to Dole: Be relaxed, listen to the questions and try to pin Clinton down. And don't glower...
Wayans, reprising the comic anger of his Major Payne, mostly gets to glower and spit out lines like "Shut the hell up!" Sandler has the whining sharpie role, playing up coquettishly to Wayans' righteousness. He even--could this be more femme?--gets his own romantic shower scene, in which he warbles I Will Always Love You. But there's not a lot of giving in his give-and-take scenes with Wayans. S.N.L. viewers know that when Sandler is singing in the shower, he's singing to himself...