He owes several truckloads of money to the IRS.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
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Tom Scola - Feb 02, 2011 3:44:43 pm PST #13124 of 30000
hwæt
billytea - Feb 02, 2011 3:46:36 pm PST #13125 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
He owes several truckloads of money to the IRS.
And he has to hotwire those trucks and be gone in 60 seconds!
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 02, 2011 3:51:26 pm PST #13126 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Can we just take up a collection and pay him not to make any more?
le nubian - Feb 02, 2011 4:08:54 pm PST #13127 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Seriously. Because the ads for his movies alone make me cringe.
DavidS - Feb 02, 2011 5:49:36 pm PST #13128 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You know how the comments of any article are likely to aggravate or irritate or enrage you?
Here's an opposite case.
A writer attack Roger Ebert in print, using him as a straw man for fatuous film criticism.
Immediately in the comments he is taken to school. And comment after comment completely dissects his ignorance, gracelessness, and crappy writing. But politely and thoughtfully.
Strega - Feb 02, 2011 6:19:40 pm PST #13129 of 30000
Politely and thoughtfully?
Wrong. So wrong.
I once read a description of Ebert’s colonoscopy and it was more interesting and insightful than this piece.
This feels like a hipster attack at the establishment.
Either the author is naive, unread or simply envious.
You remind me of a fifth grader trying to jeerlead against the kid who dresses funny ’cause he comes from a trailer park.
Tell me, how many Pulitzer Prizes have you won for YOUR writing?
It does seem more like a draft than a finished essay, and there are a few thoughtful replies in there too, but a lot of it a dogpile.
DavidS - Feb 02, 2011 6:35:00 pm PST #13130 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Most of it was very polite! Like, "I see what you were going for in a critique of celebrity culture, but you don't support your argument against Ebert with specific quotes to defend your position."
Anyway, it was a deserved smackdown, in my opinion.
Polter-Cow - Feb 02, 2011 8:39:16 pm PST #13131 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Movie review round-up! Featuring The Killer, Easy A, Pontypool, Knowing, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Metropolitan, Heathers, Demolition Man, Hudson Hawk, Hackers, Dazed and Confused, Wet Hot American Summer, Family Plot, Frenzy, Psycho Beach Party, Next, and The Last Days of Disco, which, in a startling turn of events, is actually my least favorite of the Stillman movies.
Fred Pete - Feb 03, 2011 5:39:43 am PST #13132 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
P-C, you have a great way with a phrase. "Also, a Scotland Yard inspector must endure his wife's gourmet cooking," indeed.
Polter-Cow - Feb 03, 2011 5:48:09 am PST #13133 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Heh, thanks. Although I think I was basically paraphrasing the Amazon.com review for that one (in that I totally took "endure" from there, so I do not deserve much credit).