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...series of jobs, some out of Dad's playbook, others way far away. He worked as a management trainee for an agribusiness company, delivered messages for a law firm, worked on an offshore oil rig and on a political campaign and on a ranch, and as a sporting-goods salesman at Sears. And with each passing year his parents grew a little more worried about him, and he knew it. It all famously came to a head at Christmas 1972, when he was home visiting and took his little brother Marvin, then 16, to a friend's house. They rolled...
...more interesting than bad, generic ones. But they're still bad. The creators of the brilliant '90s Nickelodeon children's show The Adventures of Pete and Pete have brought their cartoonish, jump-cut surrealism to The War Next Door. The clever premise has a CIA agent turned car salesman followed to the suburbs by his evil, supergenius archenemy. It turns out, though, that the same team also wrote Snow Day, and unfortunately this show veers toward their more recent work, with flat jokes and obvious dialogue. At its best it's a dumb adult show that really wants...
...blithe and slightly creepy golden boy whose prowess in the Immunity Challenges was apparently dispensable when weighed against his ability to irk every woman in sight. His flame snuffed, Joel departed with a "Wow" and a curt wave, and headed back to normal, non-tribal life as a traveling salesman for a health club...
...traveling salesman. Mmmm. Wonder if he's experiencing a letdown...
Ridge was born into a working class family from Erie, Pennsylvania. His mother was a ward committee member and a die-hard Republican. His father was a meat salesman and a staunch Democrat...