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March 25th, 2010 at 5: 08 pm tombaker says: the arrested-development/idiot tendencies of some are the real issue.
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It's the arrested-development films that have made him one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, with movies totaling $2.5 billion worldwide.
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My son Jacob off-handedly pointed out to me this week that Cruise has now become the new Michael Jackson, a weirdo, an all-purpose piñata, the freak celebrity that everyone concedes is crazy, a poster boy for career immolation, a bizarre case of arrested-development, a man still playing with childhood toys.
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Why did the arrested-development president feel he had to state the obvious?
Think Progress » Bush on what he learned from Tuesday’s elections: 2006
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This last point is, perhaps, a fundamental aspect of the golden Jobs gut: Jobs remains, in an artless and peculiarly arrested-development way, stuck in the 60s, the most golden (and virtuous) of all media and marketing moments.
iPod, Therefore I Am Wolff, Michael 2006
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This last point is, perhaps, a fundamental aspect of the golden Jobs gut: Jobs remains, in an artless and peculiarly arrested-development way, stuck in the 60s, the most golden (and virtuous) of all media and marketing moments.
iPod, Therefore I Am Wolff, Michael 2006
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It's the arrested-development films that have made him one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, with movies totaling $2.5 billion worldwide.
Forbes.com: News 2011
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"I was thinking we should break up, or whatever," he tells Knives (Ellen Wong), and the singsongy way he says it, he's speaking for every conflict-avoidant arrested-development male who ever sidled up to a breakup speech like the biggest wimp imaginable.
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(R, 1:45) A trio of arrested-development kid detectives, now high school seniors, take on a murder case that they're in no way ready to handle.
NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2010
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"Mystery Team," the group's first feature film, asks a question: What are a trio of arrested-development kid detectives supposed to do when they age out of their peer group?
The Seattle Times 2010
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