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...same room, Brando also jabbed at Oz by calling him Miss Piggy and telling him, "I bet you wish I was a puppet so you could stick your hand up my a__ and make me do what you want." Still, Oz gave Brando plenty of freedom to ad-lib. During one scene--an argument with De Niro's character--Brando picked up a water bottle and, pretending it was a phone, mumbled, "Operator, we got a nut down here...
DOLLY Mice clones found with serious genetic abnormalities. Baa-ad news for sheep, hopeful humans...
...Another metaphor: The supposed church-state wall between the editorial and business sides of a newspaper. Same motivation: keep the information pure and unbiased, so everybody could trust that, say, the science wasn't touting a new Merck wonder drug because Merck had paid good money for all that ad space on the facing page...
...director's admiration of a good joke. His role as a casual passerby - as a man reading a newspaper or a passenger on a train - recurs 32 times in one room of the exhibition. The deliberateness of the gag is at its height in the 1944 film Lifeboat: an ad for a weight-loss program printed on the back of a survivor's newspaper features the portly director and his famous gut - in before and after poses...
...Most important: "Political/governmental Washington is an adult community made up largely of people who were extremely successful children." Washington gets "the hall monitors...the teachers' pets, the most likely to succeed, the ones who got excellent grades, the ones who were especially good-looking in an old clothing-ad way...the ones who got the Chamber of Commerce Boy or Girl of the Year Award; or the ones who figured out how to fake it and still make it-that whole range of smiling but empty-faced youth leaders who were universally admired, though no one could have told your...