Word: potted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harboring lascivious thoughts from the night before, and their logic is playfully incisive until Alice launches into an odd (there's no other way to describe it) monologue about her dangerous attraction to a sailor the previous summer. Speaking even slower than the night before (now she's on pot!), Kidman tries to chew the scenery and ends up choking bigtime. Her monologue should be the key to the movie--a thorough exploration of how unrealized emotions can inspire the most potent jealousy--and yet Kubrick has Alice on marijuana before she begins her speech. Why? Why cheapen the moment...
Reporters who wouldn't know an offside trap from a lobster pot were now descending on the team's lone media rep demanding exclusives. David Letterman pronounced himself "team owner" and began plugging away. Even Tom Brokaw went West for an on-the-scene report...
...seductive lead-in for this juicy collection of true tales. Bronson profiles the inventor who finances his idea by growing pot, the programmer who blows off a major project for a squirrel-hunting trip, the project manager who fantasizes about murdering a co-worker. Even the used-cubicle broker has his charms. As in his fictional satires, Bombardiers and The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, this clever storyteller keeps you laughing as you breeze from one episode to the next...
NAME: Larry ("Hothead") Johnson OCCUPATION: Trash-talking basketball player for the NY Knicks BEST PUNCH: At a news conference, responded to Walton's jibe by asking, "That isn't the same Bill Walton who was at UCLA smoking pot and a hippie...
Enter the pillared Quincy Market building and your nose will be assaulted by a million appetizing odors--fresh lobster, pot pies, egg rolls, empanadas, pizza, fudge brownies and more...