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...early '50s, they owned show business: TV, nightclubs, records, stage shows and, of course, movies. The duo that one mogul called the organ grinder (Dean Martin) and the monkey (Jerry Lewis) created inventive comedy out of a tense and bizarrely intimate palship. This set has the first eight of the 16 movies they made as a team. No masterpieces here, but each film summons up the time when Dean did his sexy crooning and Jer ran splendidly amuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 DVD Sets To Get | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...inoculate himself against attacks from Burns and national Republicans about the national Democratic Party's liberalism, Tester highlights his biography as a third-generation Montana family farmer with a flat-top haircut who lost three of his fingers in a meat grinder accident. He's also closely linking himself with Brian Schweitzer, the state's popular Democratic governor. Burns, meanwhile, is emphasizing his longtime efforts to bring back federal money to the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tipping Point Races: Burns v. Tester | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...GRINDER...

Author: By Loren Amor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HOCKEY PREVIEW 2006-07: Olympic Homecoming | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

When Jon Tester was 9 years old, he lost the middle three fingers of his left hand in a meat grinder. The only immediate impact of the accident, he says, was that "I couldn't play the saxophone and had to learn the trumpet, and I took a lot of crap from my schoolmates." There was a long-term political benefit, however: Tester, who is the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Montana, has the most distinctive hand wave in American politics, a thumb-and-pinkie hook-'em-horns waggle. Indeed, Tester's physical presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats' New Populism | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

...remixes didn’t make the cut.It’s baffling why Beck chose to let Air put out the quasi-interesting “Heaven Hammer” remix of “Missing” instead of Röyksopp’s epic ass-grinder from the special edition. Even the hotly-anticipated new mixes from ex-Unicorns groups Islands and Th’Corn Gangg do little but make Beck’s source material sound sped-up, slowed-down, and silly.The only Beck original is the final cut, “Clap Hands?...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guerolito | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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