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...makeover montage in which Rob’s friends transform him into Rob “Tool Point 0,” putting him through a regimen of weight training, whiskey chugging, croquet playing, and preppy-clothes shopping—all to get the girl...
...Spee. Which is to say there are about a thousand Jay Gatsbys at Harvard. Character: Ignatius J. Reilly—“A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole Caricature: Harvard Salient Guy It might be tough to picture the obese, gassy Reilly playing croquet or palling around with Harvard C. Mansfield ’53, but his hilarious anti-modern screeds are stilted and acrimonious enough to fill the Salient’s pages—and maybe even earn him an op-ed column in The Crimson. Character: Roger Mexico?...
...order “the club drink.” If the bartender doesn’t know what you’re talking about, ask for a new bartender. As you mingle, make a splash with conversation topics like the Israel lobby, eating poor people, boat shoes, croquet mallet technology, and LOLcatz. When you shake a member’s hand, give him a firm wink and slip him a fiver. Make sure you’ve written a funny speech balloon coming out of Lincoln’s mouth. (Suggestion: “A club without [insert your...
...weeks leading up to the championships - the official name for the tournament popularly known as Wimbledon, to be held this year from June 23 to July 6 - guards patrol the grounds of the All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club with German shepherds; their radios buzz periodically with static and their fingers twitch on flashlights. Electrified fences surround the courts in London's leafy southwest. Interlopers of all kinds are unwelcome. Foxes, especially...
...neck, and people got shot in the ear and the Adam’s apple and the forehead, and it was basically just insane.” Fear not: a Wilson death-by-BB-gun seems unlikely, as the brothers have put down their weaponry in favor of intense croquet games, according to the actor.But the “Vacancy” shooting, compared to other Wilson films, wasn’t all fun and games.“We tried to have fun on the set, and for the most part we did. But it’s definitely...