Word: libbed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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White admits he sounds like a chauvinist, which fires up the women's fighters even more. "That is so ridiculous, especially in this day and age," says fighter Lisa King. "I'm not a women's lib person or anything, but we're doing everything else, so why not this...
...Pack's idea, such as it was, was to do a movie in a friendly town (Vegas, Chicago) or familiar genre (caper, Western, gangster movie) and apply to it a bit of the ad-lib roguery they brought to their nightclub gigs. The slapdash nature of the script, performances and production was meant to reflect the informal, what-the-hell, let's-pretend-we're-having-a-ball impulse that led to their making. These were movies that loosened the tuxedo tie and the tongue to provide an intoxicated if not intoxicating diversion. They were loosy-goosy for the time...
...about. So to display it as if it were worthy of a Muscle & Fitness cover is to tell us that they are as unself-conscious as they are self-unaware. Ferrell might be the fellow who ran naked across the stage at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, inspiring this ad lib by David Niven: "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings...
...They pulled these performances out of their very being. The script was written by a 60-year-old guy and how's he going to know how kids talk really? I asked them what they would say [in certain scenes] and they came up with the most delicious ad lib moments and dialogue...
...conference room of France's iconic newspaper Libération enjoys a panoramic view of glittering domes and spires. The famous Parisian skyline contrasts with the grimness inside the building these days. Gazing through the room's giant porthole, the paper's foreign editor, François Sergent, sighs. "We could have done better with our readership," he says. Readers seem to agree. Nearly 33 years after Jean-Paul Sartre and a group of Maoist intellectuals [an error occurred while processing this directive] launched their journal in the aftermath of the 1968 Paris riots, Libé - as the left-wing...