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Dec. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Sam Bass Community Theatre’s Flaming Idiots
Big heart propels the slamming doors and zippy one-liners of this production of Tom Rooney’s farce
"...Flaming Idiots, Sam Bass' latest show, is a modern-day farce penned..."
March 24, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska
Music Industry Already Has Enough Idiots Claiming to be Authorities
"...of music … this industry has more than enough idiots claiming to be authorities as it is...."
July 28, 2008 Postmarks
Administration Intentionally Vainglorious Idiots
"...ultimate intentions all have a fatal flaw: These vainglorious idiots simply don't know what they're doing." King's statement depends..."
Jan. 22, 2007 Postmarks
Is It Just That There Are a Lot of Idiots Running Your Town?
"...really needs money, or there are a lot of idiots running your town. But then again, maybe you already..."
Oct. 12, 2005 Postmarks
People Are Idiots Except for Me
"...Dear Editor, Boy, talk about madness. People are idiots, aren't they? On both sides of the ban! But..."
April 22, 2005 Postmarks
Assholes, Politics Is a Slow Deliberative Process! You Intolerant Idiots!
"..."Jackass" Falwell, but because they will not support left-wing idiots like Rep. Pelosi and Tanqueray Ted Kennedy. Sorry, but..."
Feb. 2, 2005 Postmarks
Nominates Letter for Top 50 List of Biggest Idiots
"...purpose of compiling a Top 50 list of biggest idiots in town so that you might be easily identified..."
Aug. 28, 2003 Postmarks
3 Idiots
Two friends embark on a quest for their lost buddy in this new Bollywood comedy. Opens Wednesday.
Dec. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Professors of Pleasure
Their name may suggest a lack of intelligence, but make no mistake, the Flaming Idiots are wise men when it comes to comedy.
"...job. Collectively, they go by the name the Flaming Idiots...."
Dec. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
What's Your Number?
Anna Faris does more nose-scrunching than acting in this abrasive comedy about people acting stupidly.
"...and put the blame there. Please. People acting like idiots is the warp and woof of romantic comedy. But..."
Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Hanging Up the Torches
After 20 years of juggling fire and other foolery, the Flaming Idiots are calling it quits.
"...20 years, people have wanted them to keep being idiots. And now that these three have embarked on their..."
Dec. 26, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
That Awkward Moment
Former High School Musical heartthrob Zac Efron stars in this dude-centric romantic comedy.
"...Idiots and assholes. Those aren’t my words. Somebody in That..."
Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
A Man Called Ove
A grumpy old man finds his heart
"...him shaking his head with disgust at this betrayal. “Idiots!” he would steadfastly proclaim. “Nothing but idiots!”..."
Nov. 4, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Men in Black: International
The MiB stay Earthbound in a sequel saved by its stars
"...Few actors are as good at playing confident idiots as Chris Hemsworth. Few actresses are also as good..."
June 14, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle
Central Intelligence
Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart make for passable action buddies
"...ways give summer movies a bad name: told by idiots, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing but..."
June 17, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Pain & Gain
One of the dirty secrets of modern American filmmaking is what a skilled director Michael Bay really is.
"...but this tale of the crime spree of three near-idiots is somehow both comical and charming. As it asserts..."
April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black
Nanban
This Tamil comedy is a remake of the 2009 Bollywood blockbuster 3 Idiots.
"...is a remake of the 2009 Bollywood blockbuster 3 Idiots...."
Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Noriega Has a Problem – Namely, Gene Kelley
Democrats aren't supposed to be this stupid
"...for Texas Democrats: WHY ARE SO MANY OF YOU IDIOTS? You have one fine candidate for U.S. Senate, Houston..."
Feb. 29, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols
Little Man
If you can accept the very idea of Shawn Wayans’ face on the body of an infantilized baby-man in diapers, who’s to care about the quality of anything else in the movie?
"...as a little person infantilized and held captive by idiots. Occasionally the movie actually tries to be about the..."
July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee is something of a rarity: a movie for children that is about children and their world.
"...cooler-than-thou, and the adults in their lives aren’t blithering idiots, but flawed people who make mistakes until they reach..."
Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Drowning Mona
"...any old town; it is a town full of idiots, a veritable Al Capp Dogpatch in the lower Hudson..."
March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Brady Bunch Movie
"...the Nineties. They're freaks, a Republican's dream, the village idiots of suburbia. With one exception, the kids are particularly..."
Feb. 24, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Surf Ninjas
California surf dudes are actually heirs to an Asian island empire that has been taken over by an evil despot.
"...it never gets interesting because of the two grinning idiots at its center...."
Aug. 27, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black
Voices From the Front
"...of people, AIDS research is underfunded and hamstrung by idiots, and that sick people cannot afford health care. Rather,..."
June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher
Thelma & Louise
"...virtually all the other men in the movie are idiots and jerks. This is a movie to love, that..."
May 24, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
MAD's Greatest Writers: Frank Jacobs
Collecting 50 years of the satire that's made MAD the preferred reading of smarty-pants fifth-graders everywhere
"...football." Jacobs, you and your self-described "usual gang of idiots" at MAD can still lead a jackass to water,..."
June 12, 2015 Arts Feature by Raoul Hernandez
The Flaming Idiots: Agog and A-Giggle
Robert Faires gets a kick from the Flaming Idiots at the Zachary Scott Theatre Center.
"...The Flaming Idiots: Agog and A-Giggle..."
Dec. 31, 1999 Arts Review by Robert Faires
The Flaming Idiots
This comic spectacle is pretty much the same as ever, but no complaints here
"...The Flaming Idiots..."
Feb. 26, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
New Elf in Town
Flaming Idiot Rob Williams trades his torches for the pointy little slippers of David Sedaris' department-store elf in 'The Santaland Diaries'
"...of desperation fueled by the disbanding of the Flaming Idiots. No, that comedic trio, of which Williams was one-third..."
