"He's not a bad ball handler and he can shoot". Newell said: "I like the way he plays defense and the way he goes to the boards in traffic.
Like Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose, they tended to be servile schleppers in bad suits, handlers whose role was to schmooze, and to soothe show-business egos.
Andrews, who worked on a new translation of the 1947 play with the writer Andrew Upton, is the kind of director actors are often drawn to — flashy "bad boy" handlers on the prowl for cultural relevance.
When I send a postcard through the U.S. mail, I'm aware in the abstract that mail handlers may be reading it, may be reading it aloud, may even be laughing at it, but I'm safe from all harm, unless, by sheer bad luck, the one handler in the country whom I actually know sees the postcard and slaps his forehead and says, "Oh, jeez, I know this guy".
A week later, a business reporter in Japan, unhappy over common reporter frustrations — lack of sleep, bad coffee, bossy press handlers and a newsmaker who did not take her question — lost her patience and tweeted, "Toyota sucks".
Later, after a bad incident with an elephant handler, he turns rogue: terrified villagers call him the Gravedigger for the tender way in which he covers his victims' bodies with leaves.
"We did get up on one little tree back there once, but it wasn't too bad," said one volunteer dragon handler, Bill Bone, a trial lawyer from Palm Beach, Fla., just moments after navigating the balloon around the tricky turn into Columbus Circle.
BECAUSE YOU'VE READ THIS FAR - Here's a panda handler having a bad day.
People have suggested that James received bad advice from his many handlers, a charge leveled often at Rodriguez in 2008 after he signed his new Yankees contract and seemed to collect a new image consultant every week.
Luckily our handlers were either bad gangsters and not experienced in the art of crime or, being at the isolated tip of the country, were not sufficiently plugged into the state's Kafkaesque matrix of dependency-led mafiadom to let our situation escalate into who knows what.
