Word: weatherman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...value the place depends on what you call it, and what you call it depends on who you are. To the Bureau of Land Management, its landlord, the sandstone canyon southwest of Billings, Mont., is known as Weatherman Draw. The BLM leases the mineral rights to the site for $1 per acre per year, or $160--about the price of an average downtown parking spot. To the Anschutz Exploration Corp. of Denver, which holds a permit to drill for oil there, the canyon is designated as Federal Lease MTM-74615. Should the company's wells pan out, the canyon could...
...WEATHERMAN DRAW...
...among the adoring young Turks. He joshes with the people who approach him, but becomes almost respectful when Steve Taylor, the producer of a local shoestring cable TV show, introduces him to "the Prince of Belgium" - a flaxen-haired man who resembles nothing so much as a middle-aged weatherman from Minneapolis...
...argument in explaining to people who actually work for a living why an athlete (or CEO or movie star or TV weatherman) is paid a Dom-Perignon-and-beluga salary for, basically, enjoying himself goes like this: What the market will bear is fair...
Like this year's presidential campaign, this movie invites smart people to feel superior to it, while the dummies search fruitlessly for its heart and brain. A financially strapped TV weatherman (John Travolta) tries to rip off the state lottery while basking smugly in his local celebrity. Lisa Kudrow is hilarious as his permanently irate accomplice, and Bill Pullman is divinely clueless as the dopey cop pursuing them. It is all, again like our politics, occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling...