Word: nincompoops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hughes generated successful movie-comedy franchises as fast as other people wrote postcards. First the National Lampoon's Vacation films, with Chevy Chase as the harried nincompoop dad on some disastrous trip with his family. Then the teen movies, not strictly a series but with more or less the same rep company of kids. And then the blockbuster Home Alone, about an 8-year-old boy (played by Macaulay Culkin) stranded solo at Christmas, and its two sequels. Note that the protagonists of these films kept getting younger; Hughes was writing his emotional autobiography backward, like a sitcom Benjamin Button...
Cavanagh does himself, his reputation and his cause a profound disservice when he strings out a letter based on a fetid, flight or fight response. There are plenty of folks who support Palestinian rights and think poet Paulin is a nincompoop...
...Dawn, the female cop, Heather Burns has no street cred at all) and to Mark Brokaw's direction, which is too broad. But the fault lies mostly with Lonergan, who betrays his much vaunted realism with contrivance and cheap laughs at every turn. Example: Jeff, the cutely self-aware nincompoop, doesn't want to betray his boss's confidence, so he tells the whole story to Dawn by disguising it, ineptly, as a "hypothetical" case, a ruse she sees through in about five seconds. Pure sitcom schtick - like too much in Lonergan's work...
...amicably" splits with her? Hugh, you nincompoop! You don't "amicably" split with Liz Hurley. Wake up! You've got to do whatever it takes to keep her, unless it involves something really weird, say dressing up like an unruly schoolboy and being forced to play "That's a paddling...