Sentences with phrase «years as a punchline»
After years as a punchline, they may be the most entertaining team in January — and the best reason to watch the playoffs.
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Over the past 28 years, we've watched the Simpson clan wrestle with important spiritual issues, and the church often comes into play as a positive element rather than just a punchline.
That thing where, in 1994, as everyone was prepping for the Winter Olympics, Harding's moron associates smashed friend and skating rival Nancy Kerrigan in the knee, got caught, caused the oddest sports scandal in decades and instantly reduced Harding to talk - show - punchline status for the next 20 - plus years.
The role (written by Joe Eszterhas, a few years before he turned into a punchline) is one - dimensional, and the film (directed by Costa - Gavras) has largely been forgotten, but Lange manages to dig in and find a few gut - wrenching moments as her character struggles to come to terms with a grim family history.
Indeed, it looks like he already has: In addition to small roles in this year's «Testament of Youth» and «Legend,» Egerton has already completed filming on the biopic of indomitable 1980s aspiring Olympic ski - jumper / punchline «Eddie the Eagle» (also starring Hugh Jackman and Christopher Walken) and has the title role in «Robin Hood: Origins» (alongside «The Knick ««s Eve Hewson as Maid Marion) as well as the inevitable «Kingsman» sequel coming up.
Most odiously, the movie gave rise to the prolific shit machine of co-screenwriters Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, which for many years polluted movie theaters with its audience - insulting, pop - culture - reference - as - punchline brand of dispiritingly popular spoofery, as seen in such abominations as Date Movie, Epic Movie and The Starving Games, whose title, I would imagine, is some manner of humorous allusion to the popular book and movie franchise The Hunger Games.
We are talking real money in an immature market that could just as easily be punchline this time next year.