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- “Laughter is the only thing that cuts trouble down to a size where you can talk to it. -- character Billy Clyde Puckett in Semi-Tough” ― Dan Jenkins
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Funny, Basketball, Lying. Dan Jenkins (2015). “"YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!"”, p.284, Simon and Schuster. 23 Copy quote. Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it. Dan Jenkins. Laughter, Cutting, Size. Dan Jenkins (2015). “LIFE ITS OWN SELF”, p.236, Simon and Schuster.
Semi-Tough is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Dan Jenkins, and the screenplay was written by Walter Bernstein. [8] [10] Bernstein and director Michael Ritchie used parts of Jenkins's novel and added parodies of self-help groups, new religions, and the Human Potential Movement . [10]
Directed by Michael Ritchie, who was something of a poet of films about competition in the 1970s and early 1980s, this movie has a certain shaggy charm, abetted by Reynolds's knowing way with a one-liner. If Semi-Tough doesn't seem to go much of anywhere, it still has a good time getting there. The best moment is a send-up of an est-like self ...
Mar 11, 2019 · 3. “Semi-Tough” (1972): Jenkins semi-invented the semi-use of the semi-anything mention.
Dec 4, 1972 · With Billy Clyde reflecting on himself, his friends and his beginnings, Semi-Tough rambles through a broken field of personal anecdotes and insights relevant in the end because they tell as much about Dan Jenkins as about Billy Clyde and his buddy Shake Tiller.
