Word: stammers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fish Called Wanda: Kevin Kline, all ego and libido and stupid schemes; John Cleese, all British pomp, phlegm and cluelessness; Jamie Lee Curtis, still innocent of the effect her form encased in a tight dress can have on impressionable males; Michael Palin, just plain innocent, but with his former stammer replaced now by another verbal disability--logorrhea...
Onscreen and off, Grant's shtick is to stammer; words are land mines around which he stumbles nonchalantly. Even with a script, Grant has a rougher time getting through a sentence unharmed than anyone since Jimmy Stewart. And so, in his weeklong mass-media confession, it took a while for him to become sure of himself--sure, that is, of the Hugh Grant he was playing for the largest audience ever to see him (the night he appeared, the Tonight Show won its highest ratings since Leno's first month as permanent host...
...certainly not as determined and multifaceted as he was. To overcome his stammer, he talked with pebbles in his mouth ("like Demosthenes") and joined his high school debating team. Also a track star, he won a scholarship to Harvard...
...stage an impromptu press conference, at which he "revealed" that Russia's military possesses something called an "Elipton," a weapon of mass destruction more powerful than a nuclear weapon. Asked what in the world his boss could be referring to, Zhirinovsky's top deputy back in Moscow could only stammer: "Elipton . . . Um, well, no, I cannot explain that...
Although he has a photograph of Geronimo, "the last of the renegade Apaches," on his bedroom wall and likes to think of himself as a renegade too, Paddy piously believes the conventional wisdom shared by his friends: "When you were doing a funny face or pretending you had a stammer and the wind changed or someone thumped your back you stayed that way forever." And juvenile humor naturally appeals to him: "Did you hear about the leper cowboy? He threw his leg over his horse...