Word: hard-luck
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...find "the most scaredy-cat kid in the whole world and scare the tuna salad out of him!" That leads him to Sam. After Leonardo performs a full repertoire of growls, glares and gesticulations, Sam bawls. Not because of Leonardo, alas, but because of a monumental toddler's hard-luck saga that he tells the monster: "... and I got so mad I kicked the table and I stubbed my toe on the same foot that I hurt last month when I accidentally slipped in the bathtub after I got soap in my eyes trying to wash out the bird...
...King of the Hill In Depression-era St. Louis, a 12-year-old (played with wary, wily reserve by Jesse Bradford) mobilizes both imagination and practicality to survive on his own after his family breaks up. Director Steven Soderbergh takes a strong- minded look at a hard-luck life...
...early chapters of The Beatles are irresistible; they have the hypnotic effect of a film clip run backward, the separate pieces of a single whole coming together from the hard-luck streets of Liverpool. All four Beatles were hard cases of various kinds, but Ringo takes the prize. Poor, sickly and essentially fatherless, he took up drumming as therapy while he was hospitalized for tuberculosis, pounding on his bedside cabinet using two cotton bobbins for drumsticks...
...Killed Don Quixote, with Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort, was so plagued by calamities that the only productive thing to come out of it was the disaster-movie documentary Lost in La Mancha. So many other projects have stalled that, at 64, Gilliam has joined the ranks of such hard-luck masters as Orson Welles and Erich von Stroheim. He's as famous for the movies he hasn't finished as for the ones...
Harvard sophomore Jake Bruton—the hard-luck recipient of a no decision despite five dazzling innings of three-hit, seven-strike-out ball—set the tone early, settling down after a walk to lead off the first and puzzling Holy Cross’ lineup well into his final stanza...