Word: whackings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...very forgiving, so it's fun for me to see how far I can push before they stop forgiving," he says. "I like to heap it on them, because they come to the theater, they've got dough, they probably live a pretty good life. They need a good whack now and then." Audiences may come for the abuse, but they stay for the words. LaBute's sharp lines ride along on natural rhythm and casual wit. His pointed dialogue regularly inspires comparisons between the 42-year-old writer and two long-established masters of acerbic, dysfunctional exchanges, Harold Pinter...
...Here's one reality show that doesn't single-handedly degrade people. Its subjects--addicts, hooked on drugs, shopping and more--have already started the job. Is it exploitative? Sure. But less so than the daytime shows that set up losers like pi�atas for moralizing hosts to whack. Intervention simply lets addicts and their families--who are trying to get them into rehab--tell their own stories. Its stark, judge-for-yourself approach proves scarier and more edifying than Dr. Phil could ever be. --By James Poniewozik
...intervening seven years, Emily (sans combat boots) and Kutcher (sans whack haircut) call one another after particularly rough breakups. These unhappy times require that Oliver and Emily meet up and go on some terribly awkward dates, where, in frighteningly ill-timed bouts of physical comedy, they each put inanimate objects up their respective noses. When Emily finally gets engaged to Ben (Jeremy Sisto, who played Elton in “Clueless”), Oliver must confront his complicated feelings towards her, and eventually does so by going to her house and singing Bon Jovi. Wait, I think that?...
...Loretta”—it too is about a crazy fan and the travails they undertake. Instead of Eminem’s trite sympathy, however, we have Smith’s blithe dismissal. He is real enough to call a spade a spade and a whack-job a whack...
...asking the doctors every week, ‘Can I swing,’ ‘Can I do this, do that,’” Klimkiewicz says. “But [at that time,] I couldn’t walk without feeling out of whack...