Word: stupidity
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...host Arthur Godfrey.) Lonesome's derisive description of his audience is pure Schulberg: "Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers - everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. ... They're mine! I own 'em! They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for 'em." Of course it was Schulberg who was doing the thinking for moviegoers...
Dogs, he adds, respond to handlers, perhaps for reward or praise, or simply because of emotional connections, wanting to please their human partner. "Dogs aren't stupid - they cheat," Mesloh says. "What goes down the leash, comes up the leash." In the Netherlands, where tough evidence protocols are in place, a suspect scent is taken to a lab, where the dog's reactions are tested without a handler present...
...start on The Ben Stiller Show, has had small roles in a handful of Apatow's projects. "Judd has given me a chance from when I was a nobody to when I have publicly reduced myself to being less than a nobody by my public, drunken, stupid-ass shenanigans. I literally started crying when he told me he wanted me to do a part in Funny People," says Dick, who indeed starts crying. "Everybody in this town is worried about who they associate with. Nobody is that good...
...left with the impression that his Ivy League pedigree could take him only so far. And so it's unfortunate that he felt unable to continue to express what he truly felt. He was forced to revise and turn what was an objectively true statement - that it's stupid to arrest a man in his own house for being rude - into a vague "teachable moment" about nothing particular. Then he invited Gates and Crowley to the White House for beers...
Unsurprisingly, the plan is being greeted with skepticism by many in the intel community. One veteran interrogator, now retired, says the proposal "is either stupid, or very stupid." He argues that interagency teams are doomed to fail because of the practical problems of dealing with multiple bureaucracies, and the political infighting between their bosses. Turf battles are inevitable, because each member of the team "carries the equities of his own agency...