Word: iq
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reveal that finely muscled torso, then let his tense, intense baritone voice articulate a noble notion, and you had Hollywood's ideal of Mensa beefcake. In the era of the movie epic, he was the iconic hero, adding to these films millions in revenue, plenty of muscle and 10 IQ points. The movie Heston was almost his own species: Epic...
...because of his experience as a POW - wasn't going to compromise his principles or hold his tongue to please his party. He was also, at his core, still the rowdy, runty, red-tempered plebe who finished near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy despite an IQ of 133. McCain became a symbol in 2000 of courage and candor. Few took close looks at his policy positions. It was almost enough to get him the Republican nomination...
...answer is, "Because they're in a horror/sf/disaster movie." And if you thought that Abrams - the creator of Felicity, Alias and Lost, and the writer-director of the spiffy if underperforming Mission: Impossible III - would produce a horror movie that was not just high-concept but high-IQ - you misjudge his faithfulness to a genre requiring that, in extremis, people act in a manner that's way below their intelligence levels...
Perhaps I was louder than I intended because a friend of mine on the shuttle laughed as I said goodbye to my mother. He said he’d never heard me talk in such a way, and informed me that my accent made it sound as if my IQ had just plummeted sixty points...
...needs to be tested and twisted by a host of aggressive characters. That game plan should change next summer with the remake of Get Smart; he plays the Maxwell Smart role Don Adams had on the 60s TV spy parody, which means that Carell will presumably be lowering his IQ and raising his dander. I want to think that Carell has a bright future in movies, that there's room for his good nature and expert timing in any kind of comedy, chick or dude...