Word: shmuck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appear out of nowhere for the damn thing to work. And poor Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. In Pretty Woman, they both clicked so perfectly--man meets hooker, man falls in love with hooker, hooker becomes princess. In Runaway Bride, it's more like schmuck meets ditz, shmuck falls for ditz, ditz remains confused. And come on, that scene in the bride shop where Gere tries to recapture and one-up the giddiness of Roberts' revenge on the mean clerk in Pretty Woman? Lame-O. Further proof that you can't capture lightning in a bottle twice. (Please...
...recalled last week in his first face-to-face interview since being released on April 1. "But you know, people are people. I wasn't thinking about my own tragic situation. I was going, 'I didn't expect her to win. Isn't that nice?' I was just another shmuck watching it, you know?" Because of the jail's curfew, TV was shut off before the show ended; he didn't get to see Titanic win the Best Picture award. For a star like Downey, who has made 37 films and comes from a show-biz family, that might...