It looks and feels like utter
cornball but the sheer commitment of the stars makes the whole thing deeply watchable.
Not quite flying without wings; 7 DAYS FILMS
Disney wins her trust with a
cornball tale of childhood woe in Missouri, where he delivered papers in blizzard conditions.
Shameless PR pic
Snatching the just finished speech as he strode to the rostrum, he began reading, turning the pages and giving the audience his
cornball smile as if to say: "Pretty good huh, all my own work".
When leaders speak with forked tongues
The pairing of cocksure veteran (usually a man) with emotionally fragile tenderfoot (ordinarily a woman) has worked well in innumerable movies -- not least in romantic comedies -- and there are strong elements of
cornball romantic comedy in this script.
The entertainment value of gravity
When I was in college in the 1970s, I recall my art history professor making disparaging remarks about Rockwell, whom he dismissed as a "mere commercial illustrator of
cornball, overly sentimental" art.
Fanfares for the common man
The company compares the game to Leisure Suit Larry, a vintage computer game that follows the exploits of Larry Laffer, a sleazy middle-aged Lothario fond of double entendres and
cornball pickup lines in his often failed attempts to seduce women.
World's first fully immersive erotic virtual reality game 'coming soon'
"Often in married life, it's either some kind of
cornball, whitewash thing where everybody's OK, or it's heavy drama - alcohol, stress, they secretly hate each other," notes Hawke, a Texan native, who has four children - two from his first marriage to Uma Thurman and two with his present wife and his children's former nanny, Ryan.
The anguish of long-term love; Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy might be the most credible romantic actors in Hollywood. As their third movie Before Midnight hits the big screen, Susan Griffin finds out how it feels to be reliving the love two decades on big screen
Even the great Kathryn Bigelow had to insert a
cornball, trashy sexist ending depicting Maya getting on an enormous military plane by herself.
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Moehringer: as a third-rate novel with a deep and crippling
cornball streak, or as a loose and journalistic speculative biography of a famous bank robber.
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The extras include reminiscences from Kelly's co-stars, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor, and other participants; homages from contemporary performers and choreographers, like Matthew Morrison and Paula Abdul; a 1996 PBS documentary on the career of Arthur Freed, MGM's fabled producer of musicals (and "Singin' in the Rain" lyricist); even the
cornball performance by Ike and the Broxes.
Singin' in the Rain: 60th Anniversary Collector's Edition
"It's
cornball humor, slapstick, and not everybody likes that.
Whitworth takes Rockefeller institute job
The sensibility that distinguishes Michael Wex's best-selling guides to Yiddish language and cultureBorn to Kvetch, Just Say Nu, How to Be a Mentshcombines the sincere
cornball humor of Old Jews Telling Jokes with the erudition of a sociolinguist.
On the Bookshelf
Anti-environments are those means--McLuhan's favourite form was his notorious
cornball jokes--by which the implicit assumptions within any phenomenon are exposed, permitting us to step outside the perceptual ground and see the figures and structures freshly.
McLuhan the teacher
There's a lot of
cornball in that state you have to go through -- boats at docks, old fishermen, and shacks with swayback roofs.
American painter Andrew Wyeth dies at 91
Much of the humour is real
cornball and the songs come a bit too thick and fast.
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