He's so off his game that he can't even get his playboy smarm to work on Kate ( Kelly Preston ), the cute and spunky troubleshooter the network owner brings in to right the sinking ship.
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It's a jarring moment, soon replaced by appreciation for the actor's best role in years, as if the filmmakers performed some kind of talent alchemy on him, spinning his usual smarm into a deft touch.
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Mitch suffers a few humiliations on his way to winning a sweet girl ( Ellen Pompeo ) from her smarmy boyfriend, who, in a feat of stunt casting, is played by late night's king of jerky smarm, Craig Kilborn.
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"You know, " she says with an obvious smarm in her voice, " wouldn't it be fun if you just waited in the dressing room and the saleslady and I brought you a few things to try on ?"
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On the other hand, Burroughs is simply abrasive, Mary Kay Place's character is so incredibly superficial it's difficult to believe she emerges as something of a hero in this muck, and Bruce McCulloch plays a priest with too-apparent smarm.
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But stifled by network niceties and branded too brainy for the seething world of syndi-smarm populated by the likes of Chevy, Arsenio and ( shudder ) Pat Sajak, " The Dennis Miller Show " died a quiet, if not undeserved, death.
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Unlike Altman's 1975 movie " Nashville, " which poked into the machinery of country music as a metaphor for the moral smarm of post-Watergate America, " This Is Spinal Tap " does not aim at any larger cultural game.
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And when the sentimentality dissolved into smarm, as it did with songs such as " Grandma's Feather Bed " and " Let Us Begin ( What Are We Making Weapons For ? ), Denver was openly inviting the verbal snipers to open fire.
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The movie looks a bit anachronistic, partly because of budget restrictions that hinder some of the effects and sound ( a lot of good lines get lost in a theater full of excited kids ), and partly because of the movie's virtually smarm-free attitude.
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Power in Wikipedia should be vested in the community that built and is building it, not in the guy who freerolls off the back of our efforts and whoever smarms their way into a position of power . talk ) 05 : 37, 14 January 2009 ( UTC)
