Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Norville Barnes is an egregiously stupid heartland boy hoping to land a job in the Big Apple, but the only place the requires no experience is Hudsucker (bloodsucker) Industries. No sooner does he start work in the mail room than panic is visited upon the board of directors. Hudsucker's CEO and chief stockholder kills himself from 44 floors up, leaving his half share of Hudsucker stock for sale and possible public ownership. De facto chairman Sydney Mussberger (Paul Newman) moves to elect a complete imbecile president so Wall Street will panic, and the stock will plunge. Barnes proves himself...
...Pulitzer Prize winner, Archer goes from holding Barnes in utter contempt for his inane renditions of Muncie Business College fight songs, to wanting him for his off-the-cuff stereotypes of 1950's career girls. That stupid remarks just happen to encapsulate her real character is funny for a moment, but no one wants her to be undone by it. Tragically, for the audience as well as for Leigh, Archer never reacquires her edge or her interest. She ends up a poster pin-up waiting for her man to show some courage while cheers him on from backstage. The transformation...
...fans should wait on his next work lest they be disenchanted with him in "Proxy." Like Robbins' early works, the early scenes of this film are gems, but not reason enough to try this one out. Stay home and rent "Bull Durham" if you want to see Robbins do stupid...
...know, some of you are snickering, "stupid, the announcers are on the course, they have to whisper so as not to distract the game...
...weight lifting in the county's 1,400-inmate prison, a move they hope will ignite a nationwide campaign against the cult of prison body-building. Says Roger Quindel, a sponsor of the ban and an amateur weight lifter: "Allowing these guys to bulk up in prison is so stupid! Do we really want stronger criminals? I'd rather buy them computers and then let them do calisthenics...