Word: lunkhead
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...nature of mainstream journalism to attempt to be kind to Presidents when they are coming and going but to be fiercely skeptical in between. I've been feeling sorry for Bush lately, a feeling partly induced by recent fictional depictions of the President as an amiable lunkhead in Oliver Stone's W. and in Curtis Sittenfeld's terrific novel American Wife. There was a photo in the New York Times that seemed to sum up his current circumstance: Bush in Peru, dressed in an alpaca poncho, standing alone just after the photo op at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum...
...Joey" moves Matt LeBlanc's lunkhead character from New York to L.A., introducing "The Sopranos'" Drea deMatteo as his loud-mouthed, gum-snapping sister. (NBC may not be able to match HBO quality-wise, but it's catching up in the derogatory Italian-American-stereotype business!) On the plus side, the script has the kind of nicely set-up jokes you'd expect on "Friends"; in the first scene, Joey gives a long expository spiel about his reasons for moving to L.A. to the cab driver on his ride from the airport (acting auditions, getting close to family...
...titular Hedda (Rebecca J. Levy ’06) is a passionate hellion whose life as a new wife is studded with geniuses, bores and powermongers. There is her husband (Daniel J. Wilner ’07), an eager lunkhead academic; his delicate aunt (Megan E.M. Low ’04); a former schoolmate of Hedda’s (Mary E. Birnbaum ’07); and a primly lecherous judge (Jess R. Burkle ’06). These figures spend the first half of the play manipulating each other to the extent their respective brain sizes permit, with Hedda?...
Bullwinkle J. Moose, in his amiable, lunkhead way, remains perversely optimistic about the future. But Rocky has developed a psychosomatic inability to fly. Luckily for them, in far-off Hollywood a development girl (Janeane Garofalo) dreams of a feature film that will restore their fortunes. Carl Reiner's studio boss is dim on that--"I hate moose movies," he snarls, in one of the film's many self-referential lines, a tradition that was one of the hip glories of the original TV show. But by this time an actual movie, directed by Des McAnuff and written by Kenneth Lonergan...
Everyone in the gym at Martinez snickers at the names that Pritchard and his lunkhead pals used to call a heavy girl named Gina when he was a third-grader in St. Louis. But they mummy up when he says, "Nobody wanted to be there...when she was home, with all her pain locked up." Pritchard tells how, years later, he ended up in an emergency room after a gang member conked him on the head. And guess who was his nurse? Gina, who took note of the fact that while she had slimmed down nicely, Pritchard was the size...