Word: simplemindedness
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Like his hit CBS sitcom, Ray Romano’s first foray into the world of live action movies is straight out of the 1950s, in ways both amiably amusing and jarringly old-fashioned. Welcome to Mooseport finds Romano in the role of Handy Harrison, a small-town plumber whose...
Indeed, Mooseport manages to do just the opposite, ultimately telling its audience that government is best left to cheats and liars. After all, it asks, why shouldn’t they be given power if they want it so badly? It’s a message that dovetails nicely with...
What separates Bruckheimer shows from the competition is a big-budget ethic. "I remember trying to imagine the world of the show in preproduction," says CSI: Miami star David Caruso. "My wife and I were driving toward the set, and we saw these four brand-new pewter-colored hummers. Then...
"I'm a worrier by nature," Chase says, "so I did begin to think that. But then I began to read articles about 'the death of irony' and how [the new climate] is going to require more family films, people are going to want less complexity, people are going to...
The blessing of the election of 2000 may be that no one emerges from it with a "mandate," for mandates are an invitation to simpleminded zealotry. The Gingrich Republicans thought they had a mandate after the 1994 elections. They played it hard and stupid; look at the grief they quickly...