Word: pokes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...movie is not just less funny than the first, but also seems to perpetuate, rather than poke fun at, the ridiculous conventions of the Hollywood romantic comedy. What connected audiences to Bridget’s stories is that she was a more lovable version of us all, bumbling her way through mishap after mishap with an excess of charm. Sadly, in this movie, our everywoman, and, by extension, singletons everywhere, are turned into the nastiest joke...
Virtually every Parker production wants to be a musical, and Team America somehow accommodates eight songs that poke fun in the eye of the Broadway-style ballad (Kim warbles "I'm So Ronery"), the Alan Jackson inspirational anthem ("Freedom Isn't Free") and Bruckheimer's costliest epic ("I miss you/ More than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor"). They keep the smiles coming until the end, when the film goes numbingly nuts and expends all its imagination on ways to kill off people like Helen Hunt and Janeane Garofalo...
Eliot Spitzer received an anonymous letter last March that made for intriguing reading. The message suggested that the New York attorney general poke around Marsh & McLennan, the U.S.'s largest insurance broker and a firm Spitzer had tangled with in earlier financial- industry investigations. This time Spitzer asked Marsh about its practice of receiving "contingent commissions" from insurance companies, a controversial type of payment. That's when things started to get nasty. Spitzer says the more he probed, the more Marsh misled and "fed us the same foolishness they've been feeding the public over the years." He felt that...
Anyway, the bottom line is that you need to poke Szymanski before he eventually dupes the woeful Reds organization into promoting him to the big leagues while you still have the chance. Alternately, send him a message asking him why he did so horribly against Crimson pitching last year...
Bottom line: poke Josh Childress...