Word: magoo
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...stranger. As they drove, he was stripped of his backpack, pens and belt, and was blindfolded, hooded and thrown into the back of another car. "There was a bad 10 minutes in there where I'm thinking, 'You are really an idiot,'" he says. "'You're like Mr. Magoo. You just wander over to the Middle East and, literally, within the first 20 minutes get kidnapped and beheaded. World record...
...Count on Me). Lane had given what looked like, and should have been, a breakout performance opposite Robin Williams in The Birdcage in 1996. But no. "Nothing. I had two offers," says Lane, with a touch of pardonable bitterness. "One was, I was asked to play Mr. Magoo, which I turned down. The other was a film called Mousehunt. That was it." Nobody questioned his talent. They just couldn't figure out what to do with it. When The Producers came calling, it was hardly a sure thing. A screen-to-stage adaptation of a Mel Brooks comedy three decades...
That was, of course, before he lost his first race; he never lost again, but the mid-campaign scare was somewhat institutionalized. Kerry has a reputation in Massachusetts for stumbling through the middle of the campaign and then emerging victoriously from the trainwreck unscathed, like a political Mr. Magoo (see his Senate campaign against Governor William Weld ’66). For those of us in his corner, I suppose that counts as consolation...
What’s playing at four in the afternoon?: Indian Flute – Timbaland and Magoo...
...Forum” goes back to the very start of drama to utterly disparage it. The plot is simple: a slave seeking his freedom helps his young master get the girl of his dreams. Then a courtesan house, a bloodthirsty tyrant, Rome’s version of Mr. Magoo and a slew of other characters get thrown into the mix, resulting in a laugh-fest with hints of vaudeville that would probably make Ovid roll in his grave. But modern-day audiences have adored it. Through Saturday, April 26, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8.pm. Tickets $5 are available through...