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...sing a song for me right now." The scene was a sidewalk in Paris in 1990. The challenge was issued by the leader of a ragtag touring group called the Lost Wandering Blues & Jazz Band, who was holding an impromptu audition. The wannabe was an American-born teenager named Madeleine Peyroux, who had been busking around Paris. She crooned Jeepers Creepers, snapping her fingers as accompaniment...
Along the way, Rodney befriends a ragtag team of down-on-their-luck robots, voiced by Robin Williams, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, Paul Giamatti, and Jennifer Coolidge (better known as “Stifler’s mom”). The innovative Rodney becomes a hero to the downtrodden, rusty robots and, with the help of love interest Cappy (Halle Berry), takes on the bad guys and saves the day. The story’s naive morality might cause viewers to stand and cheer at the end, if only the film were even remotely bearable to watch...
...We’re the ragtag team, but we have the most fun,” Lee said...
...acknowledged failure, it's true. In those 14 years, Nepal has had 14 different governments, and the public's mounting contempt for politicians has helped fuel a Maoist insurgency that has cost the lives of 11,000 people since 1996. Having witnessed the Maoist movement's transformation from a ragtag rebel group to a ruthless force of 10,000-15,000 that controls some two-thirds of Nepal, the King said he had lost faith in the politicians' ability to stop the conflict. "Even when bloodshed, violence and devastation have pushed the country to the brink of destruction," he said...
Carpenter, from the first generation of film-school babies, was fusing two favorite old movies: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, with Sheriff John Wayne and his ragtag deputies holding off a jail raid, and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, in which the zombies attack a house in a cemetery and just keep on coming. He also laced his movie with references to Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford and Sergio Leone movies. As he did in his next film, the horror hit Halloween, Carpenter broke a few rules, as when he put a cute 10-year...