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Screenwriters Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson, and Robert Klane rightfully reserve the best lines for Moore and sidekick Brooks. Though more than a series of one-liners, Unfaithfully Yours includes enough of those to engrave a few gems upon the memory...
...inimitable NASA phrase, everything seemed to be going A-O.K. As Columbia circled the earth for the third time, with no problem in view, Astronaut Owen Garriott and his West German sidekick Ulf Merbold floated gracefully toward the rear of the main cabin. They reached out and tugged at a hatch that would lead them to the shuttle's cargo bay. To their surprise, despite several minutes of huffing and pulling, the door refused to budge. Not until the muscle power of the entire six-man crew, the largest group ever to fly in space, was applied...
...admires a scroll depicting the legendary phoenix of China. He is smitten and resolves to go to China as a sort of avian Henry Kissinger, to tell the phoenix that "American birds think Chinese birds are just swell." Finding the phoenix is the problem. Big Bird and his shaggy sidekick Barkley the Dog (played with wonderful canine verisimilitude by Brian Muehl) must locate all the landmarks depicted on the scroll; each locale provides a clue to the whereabouts of the elusive phoenix. After solving all the clues, Big Bird finds his shimmering Chinese soul mate perched in the sheltering arms...
...Transfer shows that Thomas Palmer, in his first novel, knows all the right moves. He offers a hero with a preposterous scheme and, for the reader's benefit, a sidekick who must be told what is going on every step of the way. An innocent bystander, female, is caught up in the machinations. And the opposition forces are evil and apparently unbeatable...
When two of Nolte's partners are blown away by the psychopath and his Indian sidekick you begin to wonder how Eddie Murphy, the star of Saturday Night Live, will fit into the serious plot. 48 Hours is obviously not Animal House. But then again, Eddie Murphy is not Steve Martin. Eddie Murphy is first and foremost a character actor; his funniest skits on the TV show are when he becomes Buckwheat, or a stereotyped bad dude. In 48 Hours, he checks the manta of Saturday Night Live and straightforwardly portrays a cool guy with a good sense of humor...