Smith, who shot to fame with Clerks, about two deadbeat shop assistants, said in his blog that he was "crushed" to see Miramax "pass into history".
"This agency is in an abusive relationship with two deadbeat dads," said Doreen M. Frasca, an appointee of Governor Paterson, referring to Albany and City Hall, which provide most of the authority's financing.
The collapse of Obama's effort to close Guantánamo is the kind of failure that, in our atomized, increasingly dysfunctional political system, has a thousand deadbeat dads.
You can catch them at town hall meetings attacking 47 million "deadbeat" Americans who have no health insurance.
It is a crowd that feels better when they can rationalize that unlike those 47-million "deadbeat" underachieving losers, their own crowd of motivated, righteous types will always have medical care when they are sick or dying.
A shame, since it's the richer, more relaxed film: a loosely fact-inspired caper about two hard-up deadbeats in sleepy Switzerland who attempt to exhume Charlie Chaplin's corpse for ransom, it's brushed with melancholic comedy and glazed with a glorious Michel Legrand score that hearkens wistfully to a gentler strain of classic French cinema.
Last year the IRS sent 4.4 million notices to deadbeats that it might snatch their assets, a count up 650% from 2000.
Instead, most of the three hundred and fifty alumni there had already paid forty-five bucks apiece, with deadbeats assured that they would eventually be hunted down.
But nobody likes losers and deadbeats, particularly two in one.
Deadbeats catch one peep of your dismal grill and cough up their debts on the spot.
