Word: gnomish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gestation: "In the beginning, I knew nothing about the magazine business. I knew I had a good idea. Everyone told me so, but they all bet against my doing it." In addition to exasperated editors, she was confronted by battalions of advertising and research "pros." She recalls them as gnomish little men who denigrated an audience of older women and told her that old "broads" and "gals" didn't want to see pictures of themselves. They smugly reiterated the Madison Avenue maxim: Youth is beauty. "The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality," explains Lear...
...stands 5 ft. tall, on point. His face has the canine cantankerousness of a mutt on David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks. He secured TV fame playing a gnomish cab dispatcher with a heart of gunk. Not, you might say, Hollywood's idea of a leading man, unless for a Muppet remake of Rumpelstiltskin. But in today's Hollywood, where the hottest teen idol is a 64-year-old named Rodney Dangerfield, anything is possible. So why not Danny DeVito as the topliner of the highly liked summer hit Ruthless People? Or as the scene stealer in a rock video...
...movie is merely the newest send-up the most passionate putdown, of pop culture's twin inanities: inept musicians and their earnest hagiographers. As conceived and improvised by Christopher Guest (Nigel), Michael McKean (David) Rob Reiner (Marty) and Harry Shearer .Derek Smalls, the band's gnomish bass player), the imaginary band members make up in narcotic solemnity what they lack in talent. Onstage, they steal ntts from Boccherini and Chuck Berry they re-enact the creation of the world and send costumed dwarfs capering around a tiny replica of Stonehenge...