Pity the
shlub who works 80 hours a week for six figures.
Hired to wax Andy Garcia and his crew, Buscemi's weasily, fedora-wearing
shlub may not look like much but he'll turn you all into buckwheats as soon as look at you.
"They never really knew what to do with my character, who was just such a
shlub," he remembers.
Perhaps most mystifying is that God, a
shlub named Al (Michael J.
The rifle tells all in "Male Fantasy": An obnoxious
shlub thinks he's possessed of godlike powers over the female sex and embarks on an absurd odyssey during which that theory is disproved at nearly every turn.
He's been transformed from
shlub to stud, a bit like Paul Rudd's character in "The Shape of Things," except that Max's mellifluous muse is no ordinary femme fatale--it's fame herself.
Allen's Joe Scheffer is a divorced, middle-management
shlub stuck in a dead-end job at a large pharmaceuticals company, making corporate videos promoting the latest wonder drugs (with a heart-stopping list of side-effects).
LAST week I tweeted my displeasure at corporations that spell out their names entirely in block capitals, presumably to stand out from the poor
shlubs that actually obey the laws of grammar.
Sooner or later, though, millions of
shlubs dependent on pension checks, annuities, or monthly payouts of one kind or another will notice that something has stopped landing in the mailbox.
Enjoying the image of some FBI
shlubs in hindquarters gathering paper with lots of black-out, I hoped he put those files to the best literary uses.
Is the interactive media buying public better informed than we
shlubs who still read newspapers?