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...form of self-discovery while attempting to find a new job—a remarkable venture for his usual laziness. Mogolov’s deadpan comedy was more likely to garner easy laughs; for instance, David claims that his biggest problem is that he is “a shmuck.” Mogolov’s portrayal of David’s lethargy was amusingly self-deprecating; although he did not have the weight of a deeply rooted pain to portray, he mastered David’s laziness with the nonchalant delivery of his jokes...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Diptych’ Finds Depth in Duality | 10/14/2007 | See Source »

Heebonics are Jewish words that have become part of the American vernacular. Words like kvetch, shmuck and ventriloquism. There’s a big controversy as to whether the American government should support the heebonics being taught in inner-city public schools in order that underprivileged minorities get the tools they need to succeed in business...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions For Joshua Neuman | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

...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 twice. (Please...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and David Kornhaber, S | Title: I Know What You Saw This Summer | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...recalled last week in his first face-to-face interview since being released on April 1. "But you know, people are people. I wasn't thinking about my own tragic situation. I was going, 'I didn't expect her to win. Isn't that nice?' I was just another shmuck watching it, you know?" Because of the jail's curfew, TV was shut off before the show ended; he didn't get to see Titanic win the Best Picture award. For a star like Downey, who has made 37 films and comes from a show-biz family, that might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: From Hollywood To Hell And Back | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...really know how to think ahead! Although now you have no time at all to enjoy any of the pizza money you're earning, just think how many pizzas you'll have accumulated by the end of your life. Now get back to work on that "Simpson and Shmuck" deal...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Ulltimate Job | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

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