Word: orthodontists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those irritating people who cover wrongheadedness with eccentric excess. This is supposed to be charming, but it is merely tiresome. Portman pouts prettily at Adele's all too predictable capers--naturally she forgets to pay the utility bills, misreads her daughter's dreams and that handsome orthodontist's intentions. But you can feel these beats coming--thump, thump--a mile off, and Wang's inert direction does nothing to enliven their inevitable arrival...
...NEWHART and KELSEY GRAMMER have treated their fair share of eccentrics. Now that the two have joined practices for a movie, they are playing somewhat neurotic characters themselves. In the upcoming Showtime film How Doc Waddems Finally Broke a 100, Newhart plays golf enthusiast Waddems, a mild-mannered orthodontist bent on shattering that score. He finds a hazard in partner Howard Greene (Grammer), an overly fastidious interpreter of the game's rules, and the good walk turns murderous. Newhart, an avid golfer, claims his game surpasses that of the character he plays. "I had to come up with a lousy...
...anything we needed to know about Harvard," and students from campus groups would routinely stop by our entryway to introduce themselves and offer to answer our questions. My second week, I got an e-mail from a junior who introduced herself as the niece of the neighbor of my orthodontist's assistant. Any questions, she assured me, feel free...
...takes the cake as the biggest suck-up to ever apply (At least in Fitzsimmons' memory)? One student in the early to mid-70s sent close to 100 letters of recommendation, including one from his orthodontist, who assured the admissions office that everything was okay now, and the applicant now had a wonderful smile. "He showed up at a recruiting session and at the office," Fitzsimmons says. "During the interview, he literally stopped the interviewer and made him listen to a tape of his music," he adds. He played the cello...
...boss likes his staff settled down and therefore a little desperate: you know, mortgage, car and tuition payments, maybe a few bills from the orthodontist. When obligations exceed income, the folks at his ad agency work harder and more loyally. That's his theory, anyway, and Kate (Jennifer Aniston) doesn't fit it. She's single and living within an income that does not match her talent. A friend suggests she invent a fiance to get a raise based on this spurious evidence of stability. A wedding videographer named Nick (Jay Mohr) agrees to go along with the gag, hoping...