Word: robbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard football place kicker Rob Steinberg has been named a member of the Jewish All-American football team...
...watch. If director towards learned anything from his Pink Panther films it was how to set up a really big gag, and make the audience enjoy watching the pieces fall into place until the film blows up. In this case, the gag is the inevitable simultaneous birth of Rob's two children--at the same hospital--and it meets every expectation. Unfortunately, the madcap scene at the hospital and its aftermath only occupies the last third of the film, leaving a yawning nine month gap in the middle...
...implication is that Rob has added another wife to get another kid, that he is so child-crazy that he can't stop schtupping until he has permantly destroyed any hope for zero-population growth in the twentieth century. That's not so funny...
...would have been to skip over that period of time as rapidly as possible. To Edward's credit, he half way succeeds in keeping audience interest by planting some notable jokes that reach fruition in the hospital scene. However, Edwards indulges in presenting the difficulties caused by Rob's bigamous bind. By this point in the film, any audience has either adequately suspended its belief or walked...
...Moore's and Edwards's best known collaboration, 10, Moore was a musician undergoing a romantic mid-life crisis. On the hunt for the perfect woman, he learns from Bo Derek that it ain't what ya got, it's what ya do with it. Rob the journalist is merely an extension of Moore's part in 10, less smutty and more family-minded. In face after the lesson learned in 10, children are the logical next step for middle-aged male monomania...