Word: gumped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People always tell me to do 'Run, Forrest! Run!'" Hale says, in a reference to celluloid football hero and Alabaman Forrest Gump...
...voice, with its deep drawl and homespun poetry, sounds familiar. "Mah name's Lidia Simmons, an' Ah'm 12 yeahs ol'. An' these here're mah memoirs." Jeez Louise -- it's Forrest Gump as a girl! With scenes of slow-talking good guys in the U.S. South and dead buddies on Vietnam battlefields, The War might seem the first in a bunch of Gumpthings hoping to replicate that film's $285 million success story. But on a smaller scale, The War is a bigger movie and, for all its weepy trappings, a more adventurous one. It hints that it will...
Finally, the real Nerd shows up in the form of one Rick Steadman (Daren Firestone). Willum invites him to his house because Steadman saved his life in Vietnam (shades of goody-goody Forrest Gump). Steadman's entrance is suspenseful because he wears a costume to conceal his identity. Tripping from one faux paux to the next and yet utterly naive about it, Steadman is the stereotypical nerd, but more abrasive, more annoying and goonier. He's a nerd's wet dream. Firestone sounds like Pee-Wee Herman with emphysema...
...columns have been increasingly larded with aphorisms, with the occasional platitude thrown in for good measure. She ran the risk of becoming the Forrest Gump of the Op-Ed page. Her pieces read as a largo interpretation of life where much is kept...
...Forrest Gump. Take a date. Tom Hanks deserves another Oscar. So does Gary Sinise for a realistic portrayal of Captain Dan that is winning him acclaim from disabled advocates nationwide. You must see this movie--if only so that you know exactly how to say the phrase "Life is like a box of chocolates...