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...lovely rumbling sound you hear" BOOM! BOOM! - "is one of my favorite prisoners. He was a bass drummer in an orchestra I once conducted. Do you know the part in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony where the drummer is supposed to go 'ah-boom-boom-boom Boom'? Well, this stupid lout always went 'ah-boom-boom-boom Boom. Boom.' One extra boom. He'll be here forever." He approaches a cell with a man striking a huge drum, and Zabladowski asks, "You mean he has to keep beating that drum forever?" Dr. T. blithely sneers, "Oh, that...
...Martha and Oprah?" and she replied, "Martha and Oprah are pretty successful controlling bitches, don't you think?" But Oprah gave women a vision of how to be better; Stewart gave them advice on how to get it done prettier and more tastily. The new Rosie--out, stout and lout--was chancier as an icon for mainstream moms...
...filmgoer, an actor's private life should be irrelevant to the art and glamour he can create onscreen. And there, alchemy occurs. Crowe is often magnificent: attractive, complex, subtle. Watching him slip inside a role is a matter not of forgiving but of forgetting all the tabloid baggage. The lout of a thousand headlines vanishes, and the superb movie actor appears magically in his place. When Crowe is at the helm of a movie, we're proud to sail with...
...Name of the Game," (DC Comics; 176pp; $29.95) means to be about how a "good" marriage used to be defined by what it did for you socially. Set in the world of New York's early-20th century German-Jewish elite, it focuses on Conrad Arnheim, a lazy, boorish lout who marries first for business and then for ego. The cover sums up the theme pretty accurately: a married couple, screaming at each other, with fists clenched, stand against a background of a stiff, older-generation, family portrait...
...cigars. I want to make clear that I'm not a lout or an oaf. I don't puff cigars at people. I don't smoke in the presence of others. I only smoke them at home...