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Bad Words
life upstate
July 31, 2014
By Adam K. Raymond
things that are no
Mar. 20, 2014
By Kyle Buchanan
Jason Bateman Gleefully Gets Away with Rule-Breaking in ‘Bad Words’ Bad Words, an inappropriate exercise in audacity starring Jason Bateman, works exceedingly well if you’d laugh at a full-grown adult with life […]
By Joel Arnold
movie review
Mar. 14, 2014
Ebiri on Bad Words : A Lot Darker and More Twisted Than You Might Expect In his directorial debut, Jason Bateman plays an A-hole who enters a children’s spelling bee.
By Bilge Ebiri
The Problem With Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Ban Bossy’ Campaign Feminism is at its best when it’s creating more choices, not more rules.
By Ann Friedman
the sports section
Mar. 6, 2014
The Worst Slurs in Sports, Ranked by Punishment How professional sports leagues respond to offensive words and gestures.
By Jason Schwartzman
There Are Lots of Bad Words in This ‘Bad Words’ Trailer
Here’s the red band trailer for Bad Words, starring Jason Bateman as a 40-year old high school dropout who takes advantage of a National […]
By Megh Wright
trailer mix
Dec. 10, 2013
Bad Words Trailer: This Spells TroubleJason Bateman makes his directorial debut.
By Margaret Lyons
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 26, 2013
The New York Times Dropped a Rare F-Bomb The paper is usually very uptight when it comes to profanity.
By Caroline Bankoff
Kathryn Hahn and Allison Janney Join Jason Bateman’s Spelling Bee Comedy Jason Bateman is about to start directing his first movie, and he just added a ton of people to the cast. We reported previously that Bateman […]
By Bradford Evans
Jason Bateman in Talks to Act, Spell, and Make His Directorial Debut Jason Bateman is in talks to direct and star in the indie comedy Bad Words, a film about a Jason Bateman-aged fellow who enters into a […]
By Jesse David Fox
actor directors
July 10, 2012
Jason Bateman Eyeing Directorial Debut Bad Words , about a grown-up in a spelling bee.
By Zach Dionne
Diners Producer Calls Guy Fieri a Homophobic Lover of Poop Jokes [Updated] “Anytime any woman mentioned ‘cream,’ Guy went into a sexual riff. When cutting the show, you had to tell the editors to watch Guy’s eye line, because it’s always on breasts.”
By Alan Sytsma
party lines
Feb. 27, 2008
Snoop Dogg Briefly Erases the Word ‘Bitch’ From His Vocabulary
Has chronic curser Snoop Dogg reformed his dirty language? At Monday’s Hip-Hop Summit Action Network awards gala at Capitale, honoree Snoop Dogg repented for some of the harsh language he’s used against women in his songs. “I’m not trying to do anything to offend nobody, but y’all’ve got to understand, I’m from the East Side,” he said. “I worked hard to become a man on my own. My mother showed me how, but she couldn’t really teach me how to become a man. My father wasn’t there. I never knocked him for that. But the playas that I learnt from, they taught me the wrong way.”