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...interviewer told him that the correct response would be to talk to the students long enough to memorize their faces in case they refused to give their names...
...Correct answer: Robert F. Kennedy...
...rich when an exacta combining Sweet Charlie (my father's nickname) and Texas Gentleman (my uncle then lived in Houston) defied long odds. I once made the mistake of playing an exacta straight instead of both ways, and was roundly rebuked. To each story was ascribed a moral: never correct a wrong ticket, always pay attention to the names and always box the runners in an exacta. Everybody seemed full of oral histories, from the Rockaway Beach set in their sharkshin suits to the Rastafarians who ringed the downstairs paddock and called out insults and encouragement to the jockeys before...
Further proof that the pressure to be politically correct is long gone... Overheard in Cabot House Dining Hall between a Chinese boy and a Korean girl...
...However, if those roles seem to promise very little in character development, even for a comedy, then those appearances are correct. The dialogue is enjoyable, but remains light and airy, even when referring to murder. And the movie hinges almost wholly on funny plot twists; unfortunately, relying on the plot does not make for a movie experience I would want to enjoy again and again. Instead, The Whole Nine Yards does promise an funny and ultimately enjoyable experience for one night that while still more air than substance, still speaks for more than most comedies out today...