Word: semi-tough
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Despite Carell’s top-billing, this is much more an ensemble piece. It doesn’t hurt that Rudd, Rogen—who Apatow mined from the aforementioned TV shows—and relative unknown Malco are natural comedians. Rogen portrays the sarcastic semi-tough guy with just the right attitude. Rudd plays a sensitive but jaded and spurned lover/stalker as a combination of his character in Anchorman and just about every other nice-guy role Rudd does. Malco is given the hardest task—to portray the overused stock character, “playa?...
...death proposition because it was entertainment deemed suitable for men only -- got a reprieve in the late '70s when the first Rocky scored a double K.O. (Oscar, box office) and its sequels earned huge purses worldwide. Audiences also embraced movies about baseball (the Bad News Bears series) and football (Semi-Tough, North Dallas Forty). In the late '80s baseball surged again with Bull Durham, Major League and Field of Dreams, and in 1992 A League of Their Own topped $100 million at the North American wickets. Since then, White Men Can't Jump has grossed $72 million, and lower- budget...
...pairing lurks the essence of cyberpunk culture. It's a way of looking at the world that combines an infatuation with high-tech tools and a disdain for conventional ways of using them. Originally applied to a school of hard-boiled science-fiction writers and then to certain semi-tough computer hackers, the word cyberpunk now covers a broad range of music, art, psychedelics, smart drugs and cutting-edge technology. The cult is new enough that fresh offshoots are sprouting every day, which infuriates the hard-core cyberpunks, who feel they got there first...
Maybe those shameless, down-and-dirty football novels, Semi-Tough and Life Its Own Self, worked as well as they did because author Dan Jenkins did not take novelizing very seriously and was rowdily irreverent about Texas and football. Fast Copy, Jenkins' latest, is longer, straighter, less rowdy and not quite so much fun. The background is 1930s journalism, including the early days of TIME and big- and small-time newspapering in Texas and elsewhere. Jenkins, too much in love with his subject, throws in every good story he knows about gangsters, FBI men, reporters, editors, oil wildcatters and similar...
...past few years, with the Crimson a modest force in the league and the Big Green still a doormat, teams viewed the "H-D" weekend as a semi-tough proposition: an easy win in Hanover, N.H. followed by a real contest in Cambridge...