Word: clouseau
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...began his movie career as The Jerk, needing to be taught the difference between shoe polish and poo, has been stepping in it ever since--from a half-woman in All of Me to the inept Inspector Clouseau in last year's The Pink Panther...
...three aides to help with the inquiry and waited five days before finally calling in the FBI. In failing to secure North's files, Meese may have given the former NSC official the opportunity to destroy important documents. Said a Justice Department official: "It was a performance by Inspector Clouseau." Meese's defenders reply that the Attorney General is not getting credit for exposing the highly complex and well-hidden money transfers in the first place. Says Assistant Attorney General Stephen Trott: "Ed Meese deserves a medal...
...odds of success, Sony's domestic and international marketing operations were overhauled and management oversight of projects intensified. In the case of February's remake of The Pink Panther, studio chief Amy Pascal ordered reshoots and re-edits to the director's cut that made Steve Martin's Inspector Clouseau less lascivious and more laughable. The comedy earned a PG rating, a wider audience and an $82 million domestic gross...
Agatha Christie created Poirot in her first novel, the 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and he was in movies by 1931. This mustachioed dandy with a French accent as hokey as Inspector Clouseau's was a perfect fit for Peter Ustinov, who gave Poirot heft and a subversive slyness in three features (including this 1978 caper with Bette Davis and Maggie Smith) and then three spiffy TV films...
...comfort programming can make studio accountants uncomfortable. Starsky and Hutch did O.K. as a Ben Stiller--Owen Wilson romp last year, but many TV blowups--like The Mod Squad, My Favorite Martian and Steve Martin's Sgt. Bilko--tanked. (Then again, Martin bringing his spin to Inspector Clouseau in this summer's remake of The Pink Panther--that has us smiling already...