Silvestre earned his disillusionment the hard way, staking himself on committed radical action.
Kirk actually surfaced in 1969, bidding successfully for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, selling off much of its underutilized real estate and staking himself to the MGM Grand casino in Las Vegas.
Carlyle is clearly no slouch in the genius/troublemaker stakes himself.
The problem for Mr. Obama, Mr. Edwards added, is that he has raised the stakes himself so high.
Mr. Malone expressed interest in buying the stake himself several months ago, but the Kirch Group's founder, Leo Kirch, strongly objected.
Updated pars: According to the latest reports, Yattendon, DMGT and Trinity Mirror would between them own close to 75% of Local World, while Monty will have a substantial stake himself.
Lorena tries to snap him out of it by saying what we're all thinking – "You are such a wet blanket" – but she finally lets him leave her when he threatens to stake himself.
But within the grubby and teeming territory he has staked out for himself, Pelecanos sketches a picture not so much of the dead end of inner-city life but of the inhabitants who refuse to give up the ghost.
In sitcom after sitcom and movie after movie, and in his other job as a voiceover actor and artist, he has staked a place for himself as perhaps the most aggressively amusing, terrifying, vanity-free and daring of post-Apatow, post-Seinfeld comic actors – an incredibly dependable and omnipresent A-type bully and crybaby with a heart of pure mush.
The territory he has staked it out for himself, through his podcast, the TV show and live performances, is less that of a conventional standup comedian, closer to comic book writer Harvey Pekar, subject of the 2003 film American Splendor, an obsessive music fan and curmudgeonly, self-lacerating chronicler of the mundane details of his life in Cleveland, Ohio.
