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...aspect of the characters, however, is summed up in the story of the scorpion and the frog, which Arkadin tells. A scorpion convinces a frog to take him across a river, because if the scorpion stings the frog, they will both die. In the midst of their journey, the frog feels the sting and says, “Why? This is illogical. We will both die.” The scorpion responds, “I can’t help it. It is my character.” This anecdote foreshadows the plot of the movie while making...
...other area schools often perform at The Comedy Studio.Emerson College has an especially close connection with The Comedy Studio. It offers a comedy-writing class that requires students to perform stand-up at the Studio as a final project.Harvard hasn’t always eschewed stand-up for a scorpion bowl at the Kong. B.J. Novak ’01, who is currently working as a writer, producer, and actor on NBC’s “The Office,” performed frequently at the Studio as a Harvard undergraduate. Jenkins said that his club also featured Daniel...
...first scene in The Wild Bunch--a swarm of red ants devouring a scorpion as children giggle at the sport--could summarize Peckinpah's view of humanity. Something in this legendary auteur, who drank and crazied himself out of a brilliant career, said, "Life is awful. Ain't it fun to watch?" This DVD package spotlights two wild westerns (The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) and two mild ones (Ride the High Country and The Ballad of Cable Hogue), all paying tribute to colorful, mournful rogues whose time had passed. For Peckinpah, elegy was autobiography...
...alone.Martinez and his group faced a formidable task: Recreate with man-made materials a vicious scorpion’s tail on a grander scale—and affix the giant hinged metal contraption atop a dune buggy. The result is something out of Real World/Road Rules Challenge, with the scorpion-tail dune buggy chasing around smaller dune buggies in the “kill zone” in an attempt to pop the large balloons attached to the smaller buggies. It’s complicated.Martinez sported a light pink polo shirt for most of the show, and—along...
...undaunted. Despite losing major studio distribution and even enduring boycotts for having filmed in Namibia, which was administered during the Apartheid-era by South Africa?whose government is reported to have provided extras and military hardware?he produced not only that movie, but also its even lousier sequel, Red Scorpion 2. Still, politics, not movies, remained Abramoff's real passion, and as it happened, in 1994 a new kind of opportunity had arisen in Washington for a brash and entrepreneurial conservative who had the right connections...