Word: hothead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NAME: Larry ("Hothead") Johnson OCCUPATION: Trash-talking basketball player for the NY Knicks BEST PUNCH: At a news conference, responded to Walton's jibe by asking, "That isn't the same Bill Walton who was at UCLA smoking pot and a hippie...
...WITHOUT LIMITS A portrait of the artist as a long-distance runner. Steve Prefontaine (well played by Billy Crudup) is a knothead and a hothead, determined to shape his life and race to his own vision. This biography, from director and co-writer Robert Towne, is a sweet, sober meditation on winning, losing and the enigmas of American maleness...
...disturbingly similar new noisemaker. Trendmaster's C-Watches ($20) sport an LCD screen with a cartoon character that speaks the time out loud and makes various inane comments throughout the day. Kids can choose from the flatulent Mr. Tooty, an air-headed Girly Girl or an ill-humored Hothead. Luckily, there's a kill switch for the sound effects...
Clearly, Prefontaine, whom Crudup plays with cool ferocity, is his kind of guy. A knothead and a hothead who insisted that "a race is a work of art," he also liked to say he'd rather lose in a way that was aesthetically pleasing to him than win by more closely calculated means...
...Coneheads ("Where'd you find that guy?" "He's from France"). Critical reaction at early screenings has been mixed. But for a surefire blockbuster like this, reviewers be damned! The film even taunts the critics with a brazen in-joke: the mayor of New York City is a hothead named Ebert, whose campaign symbol is a big thumbs...