Word: owen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cleary's gold-medal winning line were his brother Bob '58, and Bob McVey, '58. Together that line produced four of the six third-period goals that keyed the team's comeback victory over the Czechs in the championship game. Defenseman Bob Owen, '58 also played a key role for the squad...
...performances in this film are uniformly excellent. Billy Crystal's casual, off-hand humor is the perfect match for DeVito's likable, offbeat portrayal of Owen's schleppy innocence. Crystal manages not only to be funny but also to be an attractive, charismatic leading...
Those who can't do, teach. While teaching a writing class at a local college, Donner meets Owen Lift (DeVito), a rumpled, childish lunatic tormented by his mother. In a conversation about how to write an exciting murder mystery, Owen misinterprets Larry's advice and decides that Larry wants to swap murder targets with him. He plots to get rid of Margaret, convinced that Donner will bump off his Momma in return...
This is a lot more difficult that it sounds. Momma as played by Anne Ramsey gives new meaning to the word overbearing. She orders Owen around mercilessly, calling him a "clumsy poop" and a "lard-ass". Ramsey's performance is so eccentric and so funny that it is almost shocking. She seems to have arrived from another planet, one inhabited by creatures that are not exactly human...
Funniest of all is Blackstone, who always shines, whether aping Ellard's childlike movement and speech, inventing a gobbledygook foreign language, pretending to hoodoo Owen, or simply staring forward with his forlorn puppy eyes in feigned ignorance or injury. The Foreigner is essentially Blackstone's show, and he carries it off triumphantly. He and the rest of the cast really make the Shue...