Word: loserness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sneers at a cop. "I make my own." Director Harvey Berman's earnest melodrama, about a teen rebel due for his comeuppance, is fun for its glimpse of Baby Jack's crystalline ego. When he's dumped by a married woman, he tells her, "Honey, you're a bad loser...
...confident, articulate buffoon who has no idea he's messing things up--Ted Knight without the bubbling insecurity, Will Ferrell without the boyish need to please. With his serious, Father Knows Best demeanor, Carell maintains self-assurance in the face of obvious failure; he's a pompous but lovable loser. "I myself am a lovable loser. So it's an easy transition," Carell says while sitting in the trailer for his upcoming movie, The 40-Year-Old Virgin. "I'm more loser than lovable, but I bring lovable to the screen. That's where all the craft and years...
Five years ago, Carell, 41, was getting fewer chances to do lovable than just loser. But after he became a correspondent on The Daily Show, the work poured in. First he was a supporting player in Julia Louis-Dreyfus' short-lived sitcom Watching Ellie, then he was upstaging Jim Carrey as the guy who spoke in tongues in Bruce Almighty and Ferrell as the weatherman in Anchorman. On March 24, he will play the lead in NBC's remake of the beloved BBC sitcom The Office. There's also a Woody Allen movie, a Nicole Kidman movie and Virgin, which...
This time, winner keeps playing—at one of eight possible sites for the first round of the 2005 NCAA Tournament, to be televised on ESPN—and loser goes home. For good...
...President, I can't tell you this country or that. But who suffered most from it? Syria. Syria was the biggest loser. The Lebanese, definitely, they lost ... But Syria lost more." And later, as he was escorting me to the door, he said, "Please send this message: I am not Saddam Hussein. I want to cooperate." The plea was at least partly believable. Obviously, he is not Saddam Hussein. It was also plausible that he wants to cooperate. It just didn't seem very likely that he could...