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As part of a public relations and marketing strategy to compare the empathy of Big Tobacco to the nobility of the Nobel Peace Prize, advertising executive Merwin Wren convinces the Valiant Tobacco Company to propose a challenge: a tax-free check for $25,000,000 ($207.7 million today) to any city or town in America that can stop smoking, going cold turkey, for thirty days.
Thank You for Smoking is a 2005 American black comedy film written and directed by Jason Reitman and starring Aaron Eckhart, based on the 1994 novel by Christopher Buckley.It follows the efforts of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who lobbies on behalf of cigarettes using heavy spin tactics while also trying to remain a role model for his 12-year-old son.
Rodney Dangerfield was born Jacob Cohen [4] in the Village of Babylon, New York, on November 22, 1921. [5] He was the son of Jewish parents Dorothy "Dotty" Teitelbaum and the vaudevillian performer Phillip Cohen, whose stage name was Phil Roy.
In the list below you'll find funny movie quotes, serious sayings and the most memorable utterances by some of film's most iconic actors. ... – Terminator, "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" (1991 ...
There's nothing like a well-timed one-liner to make you laugh. And classic comedy films? Well, they're chock full of 'em. Take Monty Python's "The Holy Grail," for instance.Pretty much every funny ...
Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS .
Use one of these funny Thanksgiving quotes from movies, comedians and TV to give everyone a laugh on Turkey Day this year. Find short quotes on food and family. 55 funny Thanksgiving quotes to get ...
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 neo-noir black comedy crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie.It follows a heist involving a confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three-card brag, prompting him to pay off his debts by enlisting his friends to help him rob a small-time gang operating out of the apartment next door.