Word: ranters
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...scene where some gangsters come in and shoot people," he says. "We changed it so they shot at the ceiling and the people ran out of the room." Now Lawton is wrangling over his script for The Adventures of Fartman, starring Howard Stern, America's top radio ranter. "We didn't hold back," Lawton says. "There's a lot of nudity, some harsh language, a lesbian love scene, and the main character works for an underground sex magazine. We told New Line Cinema the plot, and they said, 'Yeah, it sounds great. But can't we make...
...moment never comes. T2 dithers off to transform Schwarzenegger into a mixture of E.T. and Shane. As for Hamilton, who in The Terminator had been a precursor for all the tough-as-kryptonite women in Cameron's later films, she degenerates into a radical ranter, like Patty Hearst in her S.L.A. phase. Is this worth $100 million? Who cares? Ask instead: Is it worthy of our expectations for this Sequel of Sequels? The answer is: not quite. Terminator 2 had to be more than just the summer's best action movie...
...then. It is a glorious cacophony of playwrights' voices, of eloquent agnostics fulminating like defrocked prelates, debating the fate of modern man with irony and rant. This line of dramatists began not with John Osborne but with Bernard Shaw, and at the end of a ranter's play the theatergoer should echo the fond last words of Shaw's Man and Superman: "Go on talking...
...keys to success for this lough old-style romance are the two relationships pulling Mayo apart with the strength of plow horses. The son of a drunken sailor, he enlists in the Port Ranter Naval Aviation Office Candidate School to learn to fly jets. There he crashes into Foley, whom I ours Gosset Jr. masterfully molds into a merciless embodiment of martial discipline. There is no heart of gold beneath Foley's taut Black skin: the scorn he displays for his charges on the first day of their 13-week baste training stint changes only to bitter, unstated resentment...
...minor character tells Charlie, 13, the narrator: "Your father's the most obnoxious man I've ever met. He is the worst kind of pain in the neck-a know-it-all who's sometimes right." This is accurate and fair warning. Allie Fox is a ranter and raver, a Maine-born Yankee of bullying and slightly crazed ingenuity. To accompany him on a shopping trip is to be lectured on U.S. civilization and its discontents. He tells everyone who will listen that the end is near. Reports Charlie: "He said the signs were everywhere...