Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Madonna's sidekick in the line-up, the Green Monster could come tumbling down. He'll steal 40 bases, and hopefully will use his head a bit less this year...
Fuzzy purple Ronald McDonald sidekick Grimace is the subject of another story. The biologically unidentifiable creature is said to have suffered three physical and mental breakdowns since he was last in the public...
...film then marches in staid chronological order: Ed made this bad film, then this one, then a third. It focuses on the director's curious cast of hangers-on (played here by Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie and others). They were all, as Wood's psychic sidekick Criswell intones in the 1965 Orgy of the Dead, "monsters to be pitied, monsters to be despised, from the innermost depths of the world!" But Burton treats them with stone-faced sympathy...
...between Mump and Smoot and the way that they manage to create complex characters without the aid of intelligible language. Mump seems first merely to be the straight man to Smoot's comic. But Mump is also clearly the leader: arrogant, self-assured, and at times abusive to his sidekick. Smoot is the underdog the audience roots for--but he is also wily, vindictive, and--with the audience's help--even manages to one-up Mump a time or two. Both characters grapple with moral issues usually far beyond the scope of clown shtick, and both infuse their comedy with...
Here we find Rogers, in black leather and bow tie, and Estabrook, his sensibly cautious sidekick, hurtling from one country to the next, scouting out the latest opportunities. "Look for cheap, and look for change," is his motto. That means look for beaten-down stocks in places where governments have sworn off big spending and screwing things up for the capitalists...