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Some of the strangest people I talked to were senior citizens, and through those interactions I learned that aging and retired people are incredibly friendly to total strangers. They’d gladly invite me into their homes, reminisce about arguments they used to have with their union friends over whether to vote for Nixon, and maybe offer me a Dolly Madison or two before talking for as long as they could keep me captive. And they vote. Lord do they vote. Every last one of them. In fact...
...scream she would make famous in later films like Mystery of the Wax Museum and Doctor X. She had to fight off all kinds of movie beasts, getting pawed by Erich von Stroheim in The Wedding March and Wallace Beery in Viva Villa! But the great ape was her strangest, strongest suitor, in a horror film that was also a poignant love story...
...live in an age of Fear Factor and Survivor, in which "everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame," says Putzier. Tolerating employees who are different might be a sensible management mantra, but Putzier offers up little more than commonsense tips to managers on how they can use even the strangest workers to their company's advantage...
When winter season rolled around, I took up the squash beat. I knew the team, and the sport was small enough to make me feel safe covering it. The strangest thing wasn’t that I devoted my life to squash; it was the fact that the whole time I covered it, I was terrified I would mess up. So why was I a sportswriter if I was scared of exposing some horrible inadequacy of mine...
...ultimately goes to Annabeth Marcus, the seemingly unimportant wife of Sean Penn’s ex-convict in Mystic River. Laura Linney gives a solid if peripheral performance all the way up to what seems to be the film’s conclusion. But then, in one of the strangest bedroom scenes ever put on film, Linney suddenly undergoes a character transformation so unexpected as to almost totally undermine the rest of the movie. The academy surely wasn’t thinking about this scene when it nominated Mystic River for Best Picture...