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As someone that was born and raised in New Jersey, a huge Howard Stern fan (back when it was free, that is), and a fan of both baseball movies and R-rated comedies, I had high hopes for this movie.
Rudy ends up meeting Jimmy (stern) down in Mexico and begins to work some low end jobs and things to earn some cash to get back to the US.
The supporting cast are likewise on the money excellent: Charles Durning as Lloyd's loyal and protective partner Dutch Peltz, Lesley Ann Warren as a touchy feminist poet, Charles Haid as corrupt Deputy Sheriff Delbert "Whitey" Haines, Raymond J. Barry as stern, no-nonsense Captain Fred Gaffney, Randi Brooks as brassy hooker and drug dealer Joanie Pratt, Steven Lambert as the killer, and Jan McGill as Lloyd's fed-up wife Jen.
She sets a trap arranging for her sister to send their father (stern Henry Stephenson) to Powell's apartment for the purpose of catching Harding and Powell alone.
I would also recommend seeing it with a group of people, because it's very interesting to gauge everyone's different reaction right after viewing the film, there's sure to be opinions ranging from emphatic agreement to stern disapproval, but that's what's great about it.
Fox's ingratiating presence keeps the movie humming from start to finish; he receives fine support from Warner (her nude skinny-dipping introductory scene is a genuinely sexy corker), Woody Harrelson as shrewd, dashing life insurance salesman Hank Gordon, David Ogden Steirs as hearty, jolly Mayor Nick Nicholson, Barnard Hughes as cranky veteran physician Dr. Aurelius Hugue, Bridget Fonda as aggressively flirtatious man-hungry tramp Nancy Lee Nicholson, Frances Sternhagen as sour old maid Lillian, Roberts Blossom as crusty Judge Evans, Mel Winkler as laid-back, gregarious Melvin the Mechanic, and Eyde Byrde as stern, by-the-book Nurse Packer.
Where Oliver Stone decided to take a much more light-hearted, human paintbrush to his canvas, Steven Soderbergh here uses stern, almost completely serious shades, creating an informative and compelling account of a man that became a living icon in our modern culture.
After viewing this film,being well aware just how far back the story of Flicka goes,and not having seen any of the other films based on Flicka,or read any books,I came away being pretty darn sure that the story has been told far,far better than this.First,let me start with the selection of Tim McGraw to portray the girls father.He was supposed to be this stern,put his foot down type of ranch owner and father,and he just isn't very convincing in the part.I'm not saying that he doesn't have potential as an actor.Perhaps he does.I'm saying that he wasn't right for this part.Also,the story was not told in a way that kept me interested,thereby leading me to believe that it has been told better.My advice would be to steer clear of this telling and view the classic version.It's too late for me to do the former,but you can bet I'll be doing the latter very soon.
Nicolas Cage gets increasingly difficult to watch the older he gets, using his stern face to express emotion and his "puppy dog" eyes to show his sadness.
Capitalism, the Howard Stern way.
The Hall of Shame Faded Name cast makes for pretty sad viewing: former Tarzan Denny Miller as a stern, no-nonsense colonel, Grant ("The Monolith Monsters") Williams as the lecherous jerk captain, veteran TV actress Mala Powers as a feisty Russian astronaut, song and dance man Bobby Van as an obnoxious hipster, Henry Wilcoxon as a crusty old-timer, Top Forty radio disc jockey Casey Kasem as a Mission Control announcer, and future "M.A.S.H." TV series regular Mike Farrell as a TV reporter.
Solid supporting turns by Claude Akins as a famous country singer/songwriter, Gene Evans as a gruff police lieutenant, Lucille Benson as a stern, but friendly whorehouse madam, and Grace Zabriskie as a wax museum worker are likewise delightful.
To prevent this, the American State Department summoned the Chilean Ambassador, issued a stern warning to Pinochet, and announced publicly its demand that the plebiscite be held as planned.
Others, including some senior Republicans, cite the recently released US intelligence report on Russia’s suspected interference in the election and demand stern measures against Putin’s government, even though a new Cold War is clearly in no one’s interest.
In May, Bernanke issued an unusually stern warning about excessive risk-taking in financial markets.
Liu’s harsh prison sentence was meant as an exemplary measure, a stern warning to all other Chinese who might want to follow his path.
To my mind, the Nobel Committee should have recognized not just Nordhaus but also some of these other economists of climate change, particularly Stern.
But these same leaders, including that supposedly stern mistress of the budget Angela Merkel, were arguing less than two years ago that public spending would provide a “Keynesian” way out of the crisis.
As the Stern report points out, as usual, the poor are the most vulnerable.
The US issued stern, and apparently credible, threats to restrict Japanese imports, and succeeded in pushing Japan to overvalue the yen, which helped to bring Japanese growth to a screeching halt.
Auvergne’s inhabitants have a reputation for being parsimonious and stern, and, despite substantial recent progress, for a relative dearth of high culture.
Protests against Nazi racism were stifled with stern Olympic lectures about the apolitical nature of sports.
But Iran’s youth will likely overlook Rouhani’s economic-policy shortcomings, and vote for him again, because they prefer his more relaxed social-policy positions to his conservative rival's stern moralizing.
On February 1, Laurence Fink, the chief executive of investment firm BlackRock, wrote a letter to some of the world’s largest companies in which he issued a stern warning against short-termism and demanded that companies lay out clear strategic plans.
Not even stern University of Chicago economists believe that anymore.
Indeed, Tunisia is a stern test of the EU’s “Mediterranean partnership” – a long-promoted policy that so far consists of little more than empty phrases.
That conclusion, if valid, stands as a stern warning to policymakers today.
As for the cost of stabilization, estimates in the Stern Review range from 3.4% of GNP to -3.9% (since saving energy reduces energy costs, the latter estimate is not as startling as it appears).
These calculations indicate that, even with higher discounting, the Stern Review’s estimates of future benefits and costs imply that mitigation makes economic sense.
The tone of stern warning has recently been adopted by other European leaders.
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