" These people, she says, are generally defined as "schmucks.
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Along the way, she's identified 10 distinct types of schmucks.
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Instead, he was in line like the rest of us schmucks.
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And we&aposre the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing.
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The actor brought Steve Carell to dinner in "Dinner for Schmucks" (2010).
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"We're the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing," he said.
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" Foster says there are many types of disruptive employees, who she calls "schmucks.
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"We are the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing," he added later.
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They could have been any two billionaire schmucks taking an evening stroll through Manhattan.
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You're better off hopping online and browsing through recipes that have been vetted by fellow schmucks.
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"We're the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing," Trump said at a rally in July.
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So what about the rest of us schmucks playing through the tiny, drilled speaker holes on our flatscreens?
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It is the old schmucks like me on the 40th floor who have to get with the program.
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Until they do that, us schmucks have to pause the video, take a screenshot, and then manually zoom in.
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Unfortunately, for the most part, they haven't been especially good at it (see — or rather don't see — Dinner for Schmucks).
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While I enjoy the quiet life with my Nokia 3310, poor schmucks in the background toil away on their smartphones.
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That said, again, I know virtually nothing about antique brains so this could quite literally just be some schmucks brain.
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They don't ask average schmucks for money; they go to lobbyists for pharma, Wall Street, insurance, telcos, energy conglomerates…and airlines.
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Here are the top three most common "schmucks" you may meet at work: Robotic employees have difficulty forming relationships with others.
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That's all it is: You give your dollar, and in return, you find out how many other schmucks also forked over a buck.
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But while we might all be dumb schmucks with brains addled by social media addiction, please, IHOP, we beg you: Be Less Online.
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In 2010's "Dinner for Schmucks," Steve Carell's character builds dioramas out of dead mice, signaling in equal measure his oddness and his sensitivity.
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Roughly 80 million people watched Carter and Reagan, and those poor schmucks didn't even have a single Snappychat or Twitter Tweet between the two of them.
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He is lying and he is telling us he is lying, and compared to some of these schmucks out here today—well, there's honor in that.
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"For the last several, have drawn $100,1003 so as to avoid being one of those schmucks who does not draw a salary," he said in the letter.
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But the only other people outside of Germany who know who that is are the other schmucks who attended that 9am German Cinema class with you in 2002.
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That scenario was also hinted at in episode 2, when Mitch warned that Chip and all the other normal guy schmucks like him are next to be accused.
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I have a feeling it's 'her team' which sounds to me like code for her friends who are hoping to scam a free trip from some schmucks in marketing.
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"They want to protect against Russia, and yet they pay billions of dollars to Russia, and we are the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing," Trump said.
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Far from the near-mythic and heavily powdered Canary Wharf super villains, a surprising number of regular customer service schmucks like myself were using cocaine to get through the day.
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From a humor-free article about which UK shops sounds like rappers, to Buzzfeed basically opening a Left Shark bureau, the ravenous content black hole made schmucks of us all.
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During Trump's riff at the rally in Montana on Thursday night where he called out Merkel, Trump also labeled the United States "schmucks" for how much it spends compared to allies.
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"They [Germany] want to protect against Russia, and yet they pay billions of dollars to Russia, and we are the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing," Trump told the crowd.
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Look, and know you are not one of the schmucks who has kettled themselves away from the one-way-system leading not just to Shangri-La, but all of their hopes and dreams.
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Most of these 18 years I did not draw a salary (and for the last several, have drawn $100,000 so as to avoid being one of those schmucks who does not draw a salary).
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In both cases, they rely on their wits; they're just ballsy enough to make their schemes work, and more ballsy or clever than us, the schmucks who still work hard to earn our money the old-fashioned way.
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Synopsis: In the comedy "Dinner for Schmucks," Rudd played a financial analyst named Tim Conrad who discovers that his work bosses meet up for dinner regularly to make fun of the idiotic house guests they tote along with them.
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People like Adam Hillman, an artist who sees colorful patterns and gradients in random objects, and the rest of us dull schmucks who just see Post-it notes, lollipops, and breakfast cereals without ever imagining them to be something else.
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It became an alliance with no mission and in a process to remain relevant became the destabilizing factor in Europe and a burden to the U.S. As long as the U.S. remains in NATO, Europeans will shamelessly exploit the schmucks.
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Photo: GettyFor every professional musician, athlete, or chef, there are hundreds if not thousands of schmucks still playing empty bars on Tuesdays, limping out of the minors on torn ACLs, or flipping burgers at the farthest possible location from a Michelin star.
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Lionel Messi is the best player in the history of the sport (yes, he is) but won't be universally regarded as such unless he drags 22 other schmucks to World Cup glory—and this is probably his last chance to do so.
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" Mr. Trump had been advertising his intention to read the Riot Act to NATO allies about military spending, calling Americans "the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing" and vowing last week: "I'm going to tell NATO — you got to start paying your bills.
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First discussed in 1919 (and then promptly abandoned due to the Great Depression thing) the Second Avenue subway will run down Manhattan's East Side, providing better transportation for whoever it is that can afford to live along the East River, while us schmucks in the outer boroughs prepare for the L train shutdown.
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Right now on the parts of the internet mostly occupied by People Who Work In the Business of Content (or as known by their Hebrew name: Media Schmucks), there's a fiery debate raging, mostly through the dumb art of white-hot takery, about a critical issue for this terrifyingly weird and abrasive moment in American history: An email newsletter.
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I know, I know, $275 million is a lot of money for schmucks like you and me, but maybe if you spent a little more time on the economics of sport and little less time on pwning noobs every Sunday night, you'd know that the Yankees have made out pretty well for themselves thanks to "blowing" that money on A-Rod.
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A Fairly Odd Christmas (211/29)A Simple Plan (211/216)Albert (211/216)Anna and the Apocalypse (211/215)Astronaut (223/215)Big Top Pee-Wee (211/215)Booksmart (211/210)Chinatown (211/21)Creed II (211/21)Denial (17/221)Dinner for Schmucks (211/216)Double Jeopardy (211/21)Escape from Alcatraz (211/215)Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, but were Afraid to Ask (211/215)Fantastic Four (243/215)Fatal Attraction (211/215)Fever Pitch (11/10)Fire with Fire (11/2)Flashdance (11/4)Framing John Delorean (27/223)Freddy Vs Jason (213/203)Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (2211/2210)Freelancers (2211/222)Fun with Dick and Jane (2211/224)Gloria (223/222)Head of State (222/222)Home for the Holidays (211/215)I Heart Huckabees (211/21)Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (211/210)In Enemy Hands (2/211)Instant Family (217/210)Interview with a Vampire (11/1)Kingpin (11/1)Light Sleeper (11/1)Long Time Coming: A 2 Baseball Story (11/6)Love & Mercy (11/25)Madea's Big Happy Family (11/1)Madea's Witness Protection (11/1)Magic Mike (11/113)Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word is Power (11/19)Meeting Gorbachev (11/27)Mike Wallace is Here (11/28)Overlord (11/1)Reds (11/153)Santa Hunters (11/1)Shall We Dance?
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This film was based on the French movie 1998 Le Dîner de Cons which was later adapted into a 2010 Hollywood film Dinner for Schmucks. It is the first installment of Bheja Fry trilogy.
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Brown, Lane. "No Dunham Bump for 30 Rock Ratings". New York Magazine. October 20, 2009. In November 2009 Dunham also appeared with Walter in "Hart to Hart", an episode of the Disney Channel series Sonny With a Chance, as two security guards. He appeared in the 2010 Steve Carell/Paul Rudd comedy, Dinner for Schmucks, as Lewis, with a new puppet named Diane.Dinner for Schmucks official site; accessed May 4, 2013. His fourth special, Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos, premiered on September 25, 2011, on Comedy Central.
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Diane first appeared with Dunham in the 2010 film Dinner for Schmucks as "Debbie", his character's "wife". She made her stand-up debut in Dunham's Identity Crisis Tour 2010.Jeff Dunham's Identity Crisis Tour. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
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" Additionally, Warner Bros. decided to cull their roster of artists, which saw the Judybats losing their contract. "The idea of running about playing shows for schmucks in an attempt to get signed again made me break out in a sweat just thinking about it.
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Dinner for Schmucks is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Jay Roach and based on Francis Veber's 1998 French film Le Dîner de Cons. Starring Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Jemaine Clement, Jeff Dunham, Bruce Greenwood and Ron Livingston, the film tells the story of a rising executive who finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their guests and questions it when he's invited, just as he befriends a man who would be the perfect guest. Dinner for Schmucks was released in theaters on July 30, 2010 by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures and grossed $86.9 million against a $69 million budget.
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In the '90s, he published a coffee table book tracing the origins of the musical Oklahoma!. Later he wrote Schmucks with Underwoods--Conversations with Hollywood's Classic Screenwriters. For decades Wilk was a dramaturg for playwrights at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwright's Conference under the leadership of Lloyd Richards.
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Lucy Punch (born 30 December 1977) is an English actress. She has appeared in films such as Ella Enchanted, Hot Fuzz, Bad Teacher, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Dinner for Schmucks, and Into the Woods. She is also known for her role as Wendy in Stand Up Guys, and Esmé Squalor in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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Stéphanie Szostak (born August 5, 1975) is a French actress who started her career in the early 2000s. Szostak is best known for having appeared in the films The Devil Wears Prada, Dinner for Schmucks, Iron Man 3, and R.I.P.D. Szostak starred in the USA Network original drama series Satisfaction and the ABC series A Million Little Things.
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The song plays over the opening titles of the 2010 Jay Roach film Dinner for Schmucks. It was claimed that Paramount/DreamWorks paid $1.5 million to buy the rights for the song in perpetuity. In 2011, a new mix of "The Fool on the Hill" was issued as an iTunes-exclusive bonus track with the download release of the Beatles' 2006 album Love.
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Trump cautions readers against being complacent and trusting in civilization because the world is cruel and ruthless. Trump writes that those who do not seek revenge are remiss and calls them "schmucks". Trump recalls some of his romantic exploits, claiming to have secretly been with "Beautiful, famous, successful, married" women. Trump reflects on how he would be filled with disbelief during these exploits, surprised at his own success.
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He played a role in The World's Fastest Indian and also featured in the Bob Dylan biographical film I'm Not There. He appeared in Dinner for Schmucks as the cruel executive who hosts a dinner for "idiots". On television, Greenwood had roles on St. Elsewhere (Dr. Seth Griffin, 1986–88), Knots Landing (Pierce Lawton, 1991–92), and a starring role in the UPN series Nowhere Man (Thomas Veil, 1995–96).
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The film Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) starring Jim Carrey was filmed there. The closing aerial sequence of Get Shorty (1995) starring John Travolta and Danny DeVito is also filmed in Culver City, at Sony Pictures Studios. Additionally, scenes of Superbad (2007) starring Jonah Hill and Michael Cera were filmed in areas surrounding Culver City High School. In 2010, the films Killers and Dinner for Schmucks were filmed in Culver City.
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The film's first teaser trailer was released on June 25, 2010. The second teaser was released on July 8. The full length theatrical trailer debuted on July 16, 2010, which plays an edited version of the song "Creep", originally by Radiohead, covered by the Belgian choir group Scala & Kolacny Brothers. The trailer was then shown in theaters, prior to the films Inception, Dinner for Schmucks, Salt, Easy A, The Virginity Hit, and The Other Guys.
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Livingston starred as Patrick, a shady card shark who becomes determined to save Holly from her ill-destined fate. In 2009, he portrayed flight engineer Maddux Donner in the series Defying Gravity, which was cancelled after its first season. In 2010, Livingston co-starred in the Jay Roach comedy Dinner for Schmucks. On February 26, 2013, Entertainment Weekly confirmed that he would be joining the cast of HBO's Boardwalk Empire for the fourth season.
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The first trailer was released July 14, 2010. It was seen with Inception, Dinner for Schmucks and The Other Guys. The international trailer was released on September 2, 2010, and the full length trailer was released online on September 16, 2010. It was shown before The Town, and Life as We Know It. Previews for the film feature the songs "New Moon Rising" by Wolfmother and the original version of "Check Yo Self" by Ice Cube.
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Mathew Jay Roach (born June 14, 1957) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002), Meet the Parents (2000), Meet the Fockers (2004), Dinner for Schmucks (2010), The Campaign (2012), Trumbo (2015), and Bombshell (2019).Stanford Magazine, July/Aug 2007 Roach earned critical acclaim for directing and producing the HBO political drama films Recount (2008), Game Change (2012), and All the Way (2016). He produced these films under his Everyman Pictures banner.
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Clement also has a role in American comedy Gentlemen Broncos, directed by Napoleon Dynamites Jared Hess. This role landed him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. Though Gentlemen Broncos was almost universally panned by critics, some singled out Clement's performance for praise. In 2010, he voiced Jerry in Despicable Me and appeared in the film Dinner for Schmucks. In 2011, he voiced Nigel in Rio, and in 2012 he appeared as the primary antagonist Boris the Animal in Men in Black 3.
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On August 30, 2010, the production hired David Koechner and P. J. Byrne to join the cast. Koechner portrays the characters' company executive Dennis Lapman while Byrne, after his appearance in Dinner for Schmucks, portrays Issac. Emma Bell, who made her major film debut appearance in the 2010 thriller film Frozen, was cast on September 2 to co-lead with D'Agosto as Molly Harper. In mid-September, both Courtney B. Vance and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood are the last main cast members to join the film.
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Buried premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2010. Lionsgate purchased the theatrical rights to the film and gave the film a limited theatrical release on September 24, 2010 and a wider release two weeks later on October 8, 2010. The film's first trailer premiered with A Nightmare on Elm Street. The second trailer premiered at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International, and was attached with select prints of Dinner for Schmucks, Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Expendables and The Last Exorcism.
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He lent his voice to the DreamWorks computer-animated movie Monsters Vs. Aliens. In 2010, Rudd reunited with Steve Carell for the first time since The 40-Year-Old Virgin for the Jay Roach-directed comedy Dinner for Schmucks. In 2012, he had a supporting role in the drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower, playing Mr. Anderson, a teacher of Charlie, played by Logan Lerman. He starred in the 2011 comedy-drama film Our Idiot Brother with Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, and Emily Mortimer.
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The early 1990s began a stretch of successful Broadway shows for Lane. In 1993, he portrayed Sid Caesar-like Max Prince in Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor, inspired by Simon's early career writing sketches for Your Show of Shows. In 1996, he starred in the hit revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, for which he won the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. In 1998, he appeared Off-Broadway in Jon Robin Baitz's revised 1984 comedy, Mizlansky/Zilinsky or 'Schmucks'.
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He purchased the plot of land in 1883 and only built the structure four years later, once he was retired. Schmuck lived on the third floor until 1916 (although he died in an insane asylum in Hastings in August of that year at the age of 84), and his widow Anna until 1917. The Schmucks rented the first and second floors of the building to businesses and tenants. Dry goods stores on the first floor included Jones and Smith Dry Goods Store and the C. E. Smith and Son Dry Goods Store.
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Reviews for 5150 were initially mixed. The Village Voice Robert Christgau rated the album a C+, which signifies "a not disreputable performance, most likely a failed experiment or a pleasant piece of hackwork." He wondered how "the guitar mavens who thought Eddie equalled Van Halen are going to like his fireworks displays and balls-to-the-wall hooks now that video star David Lee Roth has given way to one of the biggest schmucks in the known biz." He also stated that "no musician with something to say could stomach responding to Sammy Hagar's call".
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His work on the show frequently centered on humorous observations of the Black experience in American society. In January 2009, Hyperion published Wilmore's I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts, a political humor book described by Booklist as "a faux collection of articles, essays, radio transcripts, and letters exploring the more ludicrous angles on race." Wilmore originated the titular phrase I'd Rather We Got Casinos in a January 2007 Daily Show appearance. Wilmore has continued to make occasional acting appearances, including a role as a minister in I Love You, Man (2009) and a supporting role in Dinner for Schmucks (2010).
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Borstein also had lead roles as various characters on the sketch comedy series MADtv (1997–2009), as well as Dawn Forchette in the medical comedy series Getting On (2013–2015). She had supporting roles in numerous films, including The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), Catwoman (2004), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Dinner for Schmucks (2010), Ted (2012), ParaNorman (2012), and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014). Borstein spent her childhood in Deerfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, before moving with her family to Northridge, California, a neighborhood of Los Angeles. She graduated from Chatsworth High School in 1989.
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Fischler appeared in the 2010 comedy film Dinner for Schmucks as Vincenzo, one of the guests at a dinner where rich people bring eccentric guests and compete for who can bring the biggest loser. In the film, Fischler's character has a pet vulture, which he feeds by chewing food and spitting it directly into the bird's mouth. Fischler also portrayed the real-life gangster Mickey Cohen in the video game L.A. Noire, which was released in May 2011. The game uses a facial performance-capture technology called MotionScan to record the performances of actors, then convert them to the graphics of the game.
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Soto then had supporting roles in films such as: "Divina Confusion", Deep in the Valley and Dinner for Schmucks. She starred in Venevisión's telenovelas in collaboration with Univision; Eva Luna (2010–2011) as Eva Gonzalez and El Talismán (2012) as Camila Nájera.Iniciaron las grabaciones de "Talismán" Soto starred with Fernando Colunga in Juan Osorio's telenovela; Porque el amor manda which was broadcast in Mexico from 2012-2013.Blanca Soto y Fernando Colunga son los protagonistas de la telenovela Porque El Amor Manda She appeared in Billy Currington's music video "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right" (winner of sexiest video of the year at the CMA).
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In 2009, she played the lead role in the film My Normal, about a lesbian dominatrix with dreams of becoming a film maker, and had a small role in an episode of Nurse Jackie. In 2010, she starred in three films: Gregg Araki's film Kaboom which premiered at Cannes; the comedy Dinner for Schmucks; and Paul Morrissey's drama News from Nowhere which had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Her first major role came in 2011, playing the recurring role of Lulu in the second season of HBO's How to Make It in America. That year she also appeared in the drama film Shouting Secrets.
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In 2010, he starred in several films, including Dinner for Schmucks, It's Kind of a Funny Story, and Due Date. On October 29, 2010, while debating marijuana legalization on the show HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Galifianakis appeared to have smoked marijuana on live television; host Bill Maher denied that it was real marijuana in an interview with Wolf Blitzer during an episode of The Situation Room. In 2011, he reprised his role for The Hangover Part II, which was set in Thailand and voiced Humpty Dumpty in Puss in Boots. Galifianakis starred alongside Will Ferrell in Jay Roach's 2012 political comedy The Campaign.
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He continued to direct critically and commercially successful comedies, including Meet the Parents (2000) and its sequel Meet the Fockers (2004), Dinner for Schmucks (2010), and The Campaign (2012). Roach expanded into other genres, directing the biographical period drama Trumbo (2015) and the biographical drama Bombshell (2019), which earned multiple Academy Award nominations. Roach earned critical acclaim for directing multiple HBO political drama films. He directed Recount (2008), which earned him two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and Outstanding Television Movie, in addition to the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film.
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SCOTUSblog reporter John Elwood has referred to a "Schmuck v. United States Memorial Worst-Case-Caption Award" he supposedly gives each term. In a short 1993 Yale Law Journal article on the increasing use of Yiddish loanwords in American legal opinions, chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Alex Kozinski and UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh noted that the fact that some people actually are named Schmuck made it hard to tell much about the history of the word's use in opinions. "We can't report on the degree to which schmuck has worked its way into legal English, which is too bad, because schmucks are even more common in courtrooms than schlemiels, schmoozing, and chutzpah," they wrote.
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O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, and has appeared in Mad Men, St. Elsewhere, Knots Landing, and John from Cincinnati. He currently stars as Dr. Randolph Bell in the medical drama The Resident. He has appeared in supporting roles in such films as National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Hollywood Homicide, Double Jeopardy, Déjà Vu, I, Robot, Dinner for Schmucks, Capote, The Post and as the motion- capture alien dubbed "Cooper" in Super 8. Greenwood is also a voice actor; his voice roles include Chiron in the Canadian animated series Class of the Titans and Bruce Wayne / Batman in Batman: Under the Red Hood, Young Justice, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight and Batman: Death in the Family.
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April Fool is a 2010 Malayalam comedy film directed by Viji Thampi, scripted by Jagadish, and produced by Santosh Damodar. It stars Siddique , Jagadish and Navya Natarajan in lead roles. While the film credits Jagadish as the script writer, it is in fact an uncredited remake (except for some regional adaptations in the dialogue) of the 2007 Bollywood film Bheja Fry by Sagar Bellary which itself was a remake of the 1998 French film Le Dîner de Cons by Francis Veber (which in turn was a cinema adaptation of the theatrical play of the same name written by Veber himself) which was also adapted in Kannada as Mr. Garagasa and in English as Dinner for Schmucks The movie was disaster in the box office.
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Patrick S. Fischler (born December 29, 1969) is an American character actor best known for his roles as Jimmy Barrett on the drama series Mad Men, Dharma Initiative worker Phil on the drama series Lost and Detective Kenny No-Gun on the police drama Southland. He has had more than 60 film and television credits, including the films Mulholland Drive (2001), Ghost World (2001), Old School (2003), The Black Dahlia (2006) and Dinner for Schmucks (2010). Fischler portrayed real-life gangster Mickey Cohen in the 2011 video game L.A. Noire, which utilized facial performance-capture technology to convert performances in the game's graphics. Two years later he played gangster Meyer Lansky in scenes with Cohen's character in the TNT miniseries Mob City.
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Francis Paul Veber (born 28 July 1937) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright.New York Times He has written and directed both French and American films. Eight French-language films with which he has been involved, as either writer or director or both, have been remade as English- language Hollywood films: Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (as The Man with One Red Shoe), L'emmerdeur (as Buddy Buddy), La Cage aux Folles (as The Birdcage), Le Jouet (as The Toy), Les Compères (as Fathers' Day), La chèvre (as Pure Luck), Les Fugitifs (as Three Fugitives), and Le dîner de cons (as Dinner for Schmucks). He also wrote the screenplay for My Father the Hero, the 1994 American remake of the French-language film Mon père, ce héros.
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In 2010 he scripted for the film April Fool, which was literally copied from Dinner for Schmucks, and the poor scripting resulted in failure. After a hiatus he came alive through television programs as a chief judge for the comedy programme Vodafone Comedy Stars in Asianet and anchored the channel's organized award functions.. His policing changed the pattern of existing comedy through media into tight politically correct skits with light humor and morals. This screen presence brought him back more roles in big movies and his compatibility as a superstar both in front of the camera and on the TV stage was well praised by channels. He revealed in an interview as his fellow generation of actors were turning to production, he also is planning to direct a movie with Mammootty in the lead role.
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His first play staged in 1992 at the Battersea Arts Centre, Schmucks was about a fictitious meeting between Groucho Marx and Lenny Bruce. In 2002 he played the role of Itzak Heller, a Jewish collaborator, in Roman Polanski's The Pianist. Smiles's stage and radio plays focus largely on biographical subjects such as Albert Camus (The Weight Of Days), Evelyn Waugh (Waugh in Winter), the Beyond The Fringe team (Good Evening), Arthur Miller/Marilyn Monroe (Reno), George Orwell (Year of the Rat), Tony Hancock (The Lad Himself), Robert F. Kennedy (The Last Pilgrim), PG Woodhouse (Plum) and the Enola Gay (Bombing People). A number of his plays have debuted or transferred to theatres around the world, such as Pythonesque, the story of the Monty Python team, which opened in South Africa before moving to Edinburgh as part of the Fringe Festival.
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In the succeeding years, Collier traveled between England, France and Hollywood. He continued to write short stories, but as time went on, he would turn his attention more and more towards writing screenplays. Max Wilk, who interviewed Collier for his book Schmucks with Underwoods, tells how, during the 1930s, Collier left the home he owned in England, Wilcote Manor, and traveled to France, where he lived briefly at Antibes and Cassis. The story of how Collier wound up going to Hollywood has been mistold sometimes, but Collier told Wilk that in Cassis, The film Sylvia Scarlett starred Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, and Edmund Gwenn; it was the comic story of a widower, his daughter Sylvia who disguises herself as a boy, and a con man; Collier's collaborators on the script were Gladys Unger and Mortimer Offner.
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Sony predicted an opening weekend take in the low-$30-million range, while commentators thought it would come in closer to $40 million and beat Inception for the number one spot at the box office. Salt opened in 3,612 theaters, with an opening day gross of US$12,532,333—$3,470 per theater—and on its opening weekend, $36,011,243—$9,970 per theater—behind only Inception, which made $42,725,012 in its second weekend. Salt also grossed $15 million from 19 minor international markets. On its second weekend, it declined in ticket sales by 45.9% making $19,471,355—$5,391 per theater and placed number three behind Dinner for Schmucks, but by opening in 29 countries that same weekend, it grossed $25.4 million internationally. Salt ended up grossing $118,311,368 in the United States and Canada and $175,191,986 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $293,503,354.
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Former Deputy Director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, Blackman in October 1990 became the Artistic Director of The Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) whose fortunes he revitalised with a string of programming and audience development initiatives including the now much copied "Pay What You Can" evenings. He founded the British Festival of Visual Theatre and the "Short BAC and Sides" festival that came to serve as the premier testing ground for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Notable and notorious productions during his tenure include an adaptation of the Marquis De Sades 120 Days of Sodom; the David Glass Ensembles production of Gormenghast; the Company of Clerks production of The Master and Margarita. Blackman produced and directed new writing such as Bloody Hero by Brendon Somers, Obsession by Douglas McFerran, new comedies such as Patricks Day by Sean Hughes and Owen O'Neil, Schmucks by Roy Smiles and established the tradition of the Christmas musical at BAC with productions of Sweet Charity, Josephine and Calamity Jane.
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Other films Parkes produced or on which he served as executive producer include, the Men in Black series, The Kite Runner, Golden Globe-winning Sweeney Todd, Dinner for Schmucks, Gladiator, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, The Ring, The Terminal, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Road to Perdition, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Deep Impact, Twister, The Legend of Zorro and Amistad. In 1994, Parkes was named President of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and later that year, he and his wife and business partner Laurie MacDonald were tapped to help create the DreamWorks SKG motion picture studio. As the studio's president, Parkes, in partnership with MacDonald, oversaw development and production of all DreamWorks' film projects, including three consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners: American Beauty, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind — the latter two in partnership with Universal Studios. Other films produced during their tenure include: Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous, Robert Zemeckis' What Lies Beneath, Adam McKay's Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Michael Mann's Collateral, and Steven Spielberg's Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning drama Saving Private Ryan, which was the top-grossing film domestically of 1998.
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