Word: schmucke
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...sometimes I think it's good to get back to the basics and the romanticism of boy meets girl. I think it would be a romantic thing to do for a guy to do to bring a girl to this movie and if she thinks he's a schmuck for doing it, then it's her loss. I never know - I never have much expectations for art. I'm happy that the movie came out of a show that's forty years old; it's a classic story but the writers tell it in such a beautiful and sensitive...
...with power. But it's also because you can. You get hooked on the discipline - the Big D, as it's known to us in-house cynics - on the idea that you got an order, from the Army, and you're straighter and taller and tougher than the average schmuck back home on the block...
...FedEx truck had to appear out of nowhere for the damn thing to work. And poor Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. In Pretty Woman, they both clicked so perfectly--man meets hooker, man falls in love with hooker, hooker becomes princess. In Runaway Bride, it's more like schmuck meets ditz, shmuck falls for ditz, ditz remains confused. And come on, that scene in the bride shop where Gere tries to recapture and one-up the giddiness of Roberts' revenge on the mean clerk in Pretty Woman? Lame-O. Further proof that you can't capture lightning in a bottle...
...said that before. But on this level, I'm much more worried. Thousands of angry people vs. scared riot cops. Oh, and no security. I'll get to that soon enough. What frightened me was the chance that some riot cop would panic and cave in some poor schmuck's head or discharge a weapon at the wrong person and I'd get hurt in the ensuing panic...
...Every schmuck thinks they can start arestaurant. They think they'll be like Rick inCasablanca," he jokes...