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Gentry and Leite also have to deal with pedestrians and motorists who often knock down and steal the cones they use to block the streets. "Kids knock the cones down and take them away all the time," said Gentry. "We easily have to buy 100 cones in a year...
...reflexive knock against The Player is that its satire is too inside. In the opening scene, for instance, the studio executive played by Tim Robbins sits listening to a series of real-life screenwriters pitching plausibly dopey movie ideas -- among them Buck Henry, who co-wrote The Graduate, proposing a ridiculous Graduate sequel. Michael Tolkin, who wrote the screenplay and the 1988 novel on which The Player is based, also appears in the film as a screenwriter. But all the in-jokes are a secondary pleasure, not the essence. Even if you don't know what turnaround means, The Player...
...California, New Mexico, Michigan, Colorado, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee. And California and the South are already considered Perot's main strongholds among the white, middle-class, unhappy voters Bush needs. Sums up a senior adviser to the Bush campaign: "Ross Perot doesn't have to do well to knock Bush...
...third floor apartment was one of the few with an actual door. If swung open in response to Russell's knock...
Only a major scandal could knock the Arkansasgovernor off track...