Word: parrish
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...actual premise of Meet Joe Black, however, is fascinating and wonderfully profound. Pitt first appears as an agreeable, ill-fated newcomer to New York City who hits on medical resident Susan Parrish (Claire Forlani) in a coffee shop. Soon after leaving the shop, he is killed by an out-of-control car (the death is so overwhelmingly violent that you have to laugh). It turns out that Death himself has orchestrated Mr. Pitt's death so he can inhabit the young man's body. He next approaches communications tycoon William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), Susan's father, and convinces...
BOSTON--Scott Mellanby, Mark Parrish and Robert Svehla scored third-period goals as the Florida Panthers rallied from a three-goal deficit to tie the Boston Bruins...
...Brad Pitt, who has a real gift for standing around looking cute and stupid. He appears, along with chest pains and some numbness in the left arm, at an inconvenient moment in the life of an even more unlikely figure--a media mogul with a conscience--named William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins). Parrish is fighting off a takeover bid from a less savory rival and grouchily submitting to having his 65th birthday celebrated at one of those parties of the century that seem to occur once a month in our better social circles...
...then they've set him to knocking on the wrong door anyway. What do people as privileged as Parrish and his family, at least as they are presented in Meet Joe Black, know about life? Mostly they are observed dressed to the nines, eating delicately prepared viands and enjoying life in either a Manhattan penthouse, where one prays the swimming pool does not spring a leak and ruin the library's first editions, or a riverside mansion, where the helicopter pad blends nicely into the landscape. There is no rage, pain or panic in any of these venues...
...stand up and swear under oath that he has never had sex outside of marriage, never made a pass at a woman, never told a dirty joke in mixed company, never asked a subordinate to have a cocktail and never winked at anyone? You wanna see some perjury? PAT PARRISH Los Angeles...