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Recklessly infantile in his '50s comedies with Dean Martin, he then had a decade of goofiness all on his own. He spoke in a whine, often dressed as a girl and endured countless embarrassments, the most lasting of which was the warm esteem of French critics...
Tales of Ferrell's personal kindness are legion and, frankly, get a little repetitive. But in his trailer on the Semi-Pro set, he really does come across as the warm, slightly goofy father of two that he is. He's not "on" or overbearing, just engaged. The only giveaway that he's more than just a dude hanging out in vintage polyester basketball shorts is that every once in a while, comedy spews out of him in extemporized, perfectly paced paragraphs. Here, for instance, is Ferrell's description of his character in Semi-Pro: "I'm Jackie Moon, owner...
...just a guy-gal thing, though that's part of the equation. It's more about the satisfactions you seek in entertainment. A belly laugh? A virtual blast? A story whose noble sentiment makes you feel all warm inside but makes your friend's eyes roll? I call this kind of movie the liberal weepie...
...hand-in-warm-water trick—come on, you’ve always wondered...
...according to Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Daniel P. Schrag, we are unlikely to witness any changes paralleling a global deep freeze or a new ice age. Instead, the consequences of a disruption to the thermohaline circulation are more likely to simply mitigate the predicted effects of global warming. “The important thing is that part of the world, Scandinavia and Europe, is likely to warm by 4-6 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years,” Schrag says. “So this [effect] will just cause these areas to return to normal...