Word: knockabout
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...catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane - are shown here in clips, to establish Bob's espionage expertise. Other acrobatics, like the amazing descent down a four-story shopping-mall pole in the original Police Story, Chan reenacts in milder fashion, befitting an elder statesman of knockabout melodrama. Spy's stunt coordinators (Wu Gang, who's worked with Chan for the past decade, and Bob Brown) give the star some hand-to-frying-pan legerdemain in the kitchen, which is just fancy enough to remind you how great Jackie once...
Levity may not have attended the passing of Milton Supman. There were presumably no last rites with custard filling. But given all the knockabout pleasure Soupy Sales gave innocent kids and sophisticated adults, he certainly deserves...
...oversimplify with my usual abandon, I'd say that Pixar movies are animated features in the old, elevated Disney style, and DreamWorks films are flat-out cartoons, proud to be descended from the knockabout traditions of Warner Bros. (Bugs Bunny) and MGM (Tom and Jerry). You can spot the difference in the kinds of stories each studio favors. Pixar makes movies about couples - guy-guy in Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Cars, Ratatouille and this summer's Up; guy-gal in Finding Nemo and WALL-E - who build a relationship out of initial antagonism and shared need. In other words, buddy...
...know, I know, I should toughen up. Blogging is a knockabout sport, and as a writer I'm fair game. You'd think I could just ignore Ed Champion (you can find him at edrants.com yeah, go ahead, don't all click at once), and most of the time I do. But it's harder than you'd think. Blogs reach a big audience. People read him. People link to him. Google frickin' loves Ed. Not long ago I set up a website of my own, and despite the fact that it's my website, and it deals with nothing...
...Ashes Test. Howard was there, too - in the Australian Cricket Board suite sipping wine with the chairman. Latham is more complex than the blokey caricature. It's true he's distinctly of his class, neighborhood and generation. But he has been brilliant and relentless, rather than lucky and knockabout, in his political career - which started the day he joined the Labor party as a boy. He's a striver and a bookworm who's never had a brush with cool...