This is not only a podcast about nice guys but a podcast how nice guys can finish first. 5.
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" In his memoir, "Nice Guys Finish Last," Durocher wrote that he rattled off the names of Ott's players and said: "All nice guys.
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And you're seriously going to credit the not-so-nice guys she's dated (and the perfectly nice guys with whom it just didn't work out) with all her success?
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They are real nice guys and they are good individuals.
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Two nice guys with bad ideas, make America great again!
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A timely reminder that nice guys don't always finish last.
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The Nice Guys wobbles, slips and falls far too many times.
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How do self-described nice guys damage the girls they like?
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Qualley, (The Leftovers, The Nice Guys) and promises to be a
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In case it wasn't obvious, Chad is very anti nice guys.
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He's named both nice guys and short guys as his enemies.
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Of course, you know what they say about the nice guys.
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These nice guys are going to teach us to be unhappy.
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"Nice guys and they were very large," Trump said on Friday.
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Good men, the proverbial "nice guys," this is where you come in.
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Looks like nice guys finish first in the ways of cuttlefish love.
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The Nice Guys opens in theaters May 20 • Reporting by REAGAN ALEXANDER
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We played with them when they were over here, super-nice guys.
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The Nice Guys opens on Friday starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe.
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THE NICE GUYS Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling in 1970s facial hair.
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Really Nice Guys is out January 19, 2018 via New West Records.
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"They're a bunch of nice guys," she added of the Pirates players.
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The Romans were not nice guys; they weren't Edwardian gentlemen in togas.
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Wafting through "The Nice Guys" is the gust of a good idea.
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I think he's shown that it's possible for the nice guys to win.
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They make great music and they're all really just nice guys in general.
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Starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe, "The Nice Guys" took in $11.3 million.
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We were nice guys, we weren't flaunting, we had a good thing going.
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Both appear to be nice guys, fathers of good kids and quality husbands.
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"Donald Jr. is the nicest of nice guys, genuinely authentic," the adviser said.
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You don't go to The Nice Guys for logic, you go for the party.
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Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are ready to jump-start their Nice Guys shenanigans.
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Sometimes, nice guys finish first — even in the corridors of the world's wealthiest company.
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Angourie Rice (The Nice Guys), Oona Laurence (Pete's Dragon) and Addison Riecke also star.
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" In the excerpt below, adapted from a chapter titled "Do nice guys finish last?
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There are a ton of "nice guys" in music but few that actually care.
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"The Nice Guys" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian).
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The book is meant to debunk the adage "nice guys finish last" in business.
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I got acquainted with the local winos, and some of them were nice guys.
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But as things unravel, everything about The Nice Guys gets waaaay too pleased with itself.
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But onscreen, The Nice Guys is deficient in whatever special sauce binds these ideas together.
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They seemed like nice guys; they offered me dessert at the end of the day.
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Gosling also scored a second Best Actor nomination for his turn in The Nice Guys.
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At times, "The Nice Guys" achieves the nasty, silly ingenuity that such a pairing suggests.
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Of course, 2018 wasn't the first year that people realized Nice Guys are actually entitled nightmares.
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Since 2004, the conversation about nice guys, sexual violence, consent, and harassment has become fairly mainstream.
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I don't sit in the basement making memes lamenting how women don't go for 'nice guys.
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Tonight was the first time you saw any part of "The Nice Guys" with an audience.
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"Really Nice Guys" is the latest single from Ron Gallo's upcoming EP of the same name.
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The irony of Nice Guys like Dawson, of course, is that their entitlement is not nice.
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Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst and Angourie Rice ("The Nice Guys") will torment Colin Farrell.
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And The Nice Guys delivers on that front as well, especially with its two leading men.
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Krasinski is still playing nice guys, which is a reminder of how low that bar actually is.
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The new dad appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night to discuss his upcoming film Nice Guys.
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But this wasn't the first time the British actress confessed her love for The Nice Guys actor.
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The Nice Guys is an amiable enough wheel-spinner with plenty of period texture and local signifiers.
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He finds that, just as nice guys don't always finish last, valedictorians rarely become stand-out successes.
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Chad kept on insisting that Jojo didn't want any of the "nice guys" at the Bachelor mansion.
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"The Nice Guys", which also stars Ryan Gosling, was to be screened at Cannes later on Sunday.
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"The point of this project is to show what seemingly nice guys are capable of," she writes.
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If nothing else, it was a sign that maybe this time, the nice guys would finish first.
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Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. put it sharply: Conservatives & Christians need to stop electing "nice guys".
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He was the first of the night's many nice guys, offering flattery and supportive, long-term devotion.
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But on this season of The Bachelorette, Johnson's taxonomy of "nice guys" and "assholes" sounds like a prediction.
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HEGSETH: So the left has been nice guys for so long, now it&aposs time to be tough.
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It was an adorable moment that served as a welcome reminder that sometimes, nice guys really do win.
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The Nice Guys looks like a stylish, violent hoot from the filmmaker most capable of delivering the goods.
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It imagines a steady march of progress toward social harmony, and the nice guys winning in the end.
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Washington (CNN)Ben Carson delivered a sobering assessment Thursday of the state of politics: nice guys don't win.
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If you're a believer in the adage "nice guys finish first," there's now research to back you up.
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Let's just say the whole endeavor should put an end to all that "nice guys finish last" bullshit.
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We're a couple of nice guys, which stopped being a desirable character trait about half a century ago.
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My only true fetish is for nice guys; I get really, really turned on by a nice guy.
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They were really nice guys and I think we're going to go to Amsterdam and do a return event.
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They had a program where they wanted to see if major companies who seemed like nice guys really were.
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The mismatched detectives in his new film, "The Nice Guys", have two attributes in common, incompetence and self-loathing.
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JB: It does seem a bit of a shame to pick on this lot—they seem like nice guys.
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We know bad behavior when we see it; we know right from wrong, we know creeps from nice guys.
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Like that great film, "The Nice Guys" starts in Los Angeles, in 1977, though the chronology tends to swerve.
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Shane Black's The Nice Guys is earning rave reviews following its initial press screening at Cannes and, frankly, it's justified.
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So much of The Nice Guys works so well, in fact, that a sequel or two would actually be welcome.
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They commiserate on the buddy cop film Nice Guys, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, and directed by Shane Black.
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Oh, and she too appeared opposite Ryan Gosling on-screen, thanks to a part in 2016's The Nice Guys.
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So I think what's cool about Bitch is that there's enough nice guys out there to make this film possible.
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In the giving spirit of the festive season, everybody's favorite nice guys Death Cab for Cutie have done something generous.
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Maybe he's proof that it's true what they say about nice guys: no one wants to have sex with them.
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Slapstick. Now, I'm not saying every gumshoe yarn needs physical comedy, but The Nice Guys makes joyous use of the stuff.
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If The Nice Guys looks like a good time to you, then it will be — because by and large, it is.
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The Nice Guys breakout Angourie Rice leads Every Day as Rhiannon, as shown through EW and PEOPLE's exclusive first-look photos.
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Then Gosling showed up, carrying a range of performances, from Drive's affectless protagonist to his bumbling scheming in The Nice Guys.
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If they were such nice guys, they would have paid more attention to the toxicity as it grew over the years.
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The Nice Guys on Business, hosted by Doug Sandler This podcast shares real-life stories, successes, struggles, failures, and opportunities presented.
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After half an hour of "The Nice Guys," however, you want to ask, Where are the differences between Healy and March?
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I learned something very simple when I was in the CIA: Be nice with nice guys and tough with tough guys.
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So the best thing The Nice Guys has going for it are two laid-back, easygoing, deeply likable performances by its stars.
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And despite all its restless detective work, "The Nice Guys" is unable to track down a soul or a reason for being.
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This is why we can't have nice things like unicorns on the internet: even nice guys get a pie to the face.
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"They were all nice guys, but I never felt for any of them the way I had felt for Charles," she said.
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The Nice Guys star recently revealed to PEOPLE that he once had a near death experience with a 12-stepper snake in Florida.
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Sure it may seem like there are way more genuinely ~nice guys~ now, but do they offer to buy you bread and butter?
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The Nice Guys (69) This is just a great movie that's got everything you could ever want in two hours on celluloid. Action?
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Similarly disappointing was "The Nice Guys" (Warner Bros.), an action comedy set in the 1970s that cost a reported $50 million to make.
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The notion that "nice guys and girls finish first" has now been borne out in two recent scientific studies on selflessness and sex.
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Irvin titled his memoirs Nice Guys Finish First, which definitely implies a difference with Durocher about where Irvin thought he deserved to end up.
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The Nice Guys star opened up about quietly welcoming his second child with Eva Mendes, daughter Amada Lee, during a Good Morning America interview.
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The Nice Guys actor, 35, appears on the cover of ES Magazine this week, and his corresponding interview is full of admiration for women.
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To the sorts of "nice guys" who grew up valuing pop culture knowledge over athletic ability, the character became something of a cult hero.
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And if charming, clever, thoroughly entertaining films like The Nice Guys are the result, it's safe to say we're all better off for it.
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Why it's a good alternative: "The Nice Guys" is the kind of hugely entertaining mid-budget movie that critics complain studios never make anymore.
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If it were, say, the summer of 1988, The Nice Guys would be a big box-office hit, spurring a series of decreasingly satisfying sequels.
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The Nice Guys gets a little too bogged down in its plot details, and it probably has two or three more characters than it needs.
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Since the conviction, Black employed Striegel on Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys with plans to produce one of Striegel's films in the future.
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Even so, Crowe does star with Ryan Gosling in the upcoming '70s detective comedy, The Nice Guys, so it's not like he can't do comedy.
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Less than a minute has passed, in "The Nice Guys," and the first guitar riff has barely begun, when the wah-wah pedal is applied.
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Yet she also serves as The Nice Guys' moral and emotional center — and, in one of the movie's funniest running gags, its only effective detective.
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Like The Nice Guys, it was a buddy cop thriller that relied on the kick of grisly violence and lurid sexuality to sell its thrills.
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"I always warn girls, stay away from the nice guys," Chad Johnson declares in the second episode of JoJo Fletcher's season of The Bachelorette in 2016.
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Mr. Swenson, who has played nice guys with big hair in "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "Hair" on Broadway, makes for an unusually dreamboaty Javert.
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I can request that Shane Black make a sequel to The Nice Guys all I want but it doesn't mean he has to listen to me.
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But nice guys don't always make good policy (I've been bipartisan on this), and Pai's record means real danger for American consumers and the internet itself.
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And Black uses each new revelation as a way to shape his leads, turning The Nice Guys into a character study as much as a mystery.
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He's a whiny, lying, "why don't nice guys ever win," slut-shaming jerk who cried "friend zone" and thereby banished himself from any reasonable person's affections.
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Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe will be at the fest to promote their crime comedy The Nice Guys, about two mismatched detectives in 1970s Los Angeles.
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Anatomy of a Scene In the 1970s-set buddy comedy "The Nice Guys," a private detective and a hired enforcer team up to solve a murder.
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It can be difficult for nice guys to get promoted to management, but when they do, they tend to be more effective than their disagreeable counterparts.
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The Nice Guys is a Shane Black movie through and through, which is another way of saying it's exactly the movie you hope it will be.
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Beneath the romantic comedy tropes (which were particularly prevalent in the previous episode), You is very much a story about predatory "nice guys," who feel entitled women.
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The Nice Guys' title is a bit of a spoiler, since it says a lot more about where its protagonists end up than where they start out.
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Gosling doesn't get many chances to flex his comedic chops, save for the occasional movie like The Nice Guys, but the guy has surprisingly good physical timing.
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In October he called for conservatives and Christians to "stop electing nice guys," saying the country instead needs "street fighters" like Trump at every level of government.
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Many in the Republican base felt angered and slighted, and raged at the supposed nice guys in the party who were allegedly too weak to fight back.
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The mission of the book is to take down the erroneous global image of Canada as the world's nice guys, largely because it's doing us a disservice.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - In soccer, caretaker managers are typically "nice guys" appointed to gee up a failing team's morale before handing over to a more serious option.
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The characters played by Gosling and Crowe in The Nice Guys have both suffered losses and are struggling to accept the failures and disappointments of their lives.
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While before him Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador, or even Chris Froome were not hugely popular in the peloton, Thomas is one of the nice guys of the bunch.
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Worse still it's that it's preceded by "Nice Guys Finish Last," a top three opening track in a discography filled with strong ones ("Burnout" is still tops, obviously).
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CANNES, France, May 15 (Reuters) - Russell Crowe, star of Shane Black's "The Nice Guys" at the Cannes Film Festival, has simple advice for aspiring actors: do it yourself.
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"For a while, people kept saying, 'Oh, they're the nice guys, they're not going to build the right business because there's someone that's more aggressive,'" Mr. Zimmer said.
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You argued that, contrary to the popular claim that campus rapes are committed by a small number of serial perpetrators, you believe the nice guys rape as well.
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In 2016, it seems like "Nice guys finish last" and "Everybody loves a bad boy" are two debated sayings that have a bit of sad, undeniable truth in them.
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What's in his head is more terrifying than one could ever imagine… especially because, like Dan before him, Joe really does seem like the last of the nice guys.
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His return to LA noir makes a better character study than a mystery So many things about Los Angeles feel uniquely friendly to crime dramas like The Nice Guys.
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The enduring lesson: Clubs will pay big for in-form assholes and pay something for out-of-form nice guys, but nobody pays for an out-of-form asshole.
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Guys want to feel like they're the nice guys, and some might not be aware of the way their actions can be oppressive, which can be challenging to confront.
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"Two nice guys who made it, by crafting something incredible and yet ridiculously unwieldy, with no lack of turbulence along the way," Lagorio-Chafkin writes in an author's note.
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"They appeal to audiences because they appear to be nice guys and somebody who you want to be friends with," said Mace Neufeld, a producer on every onscreen iteration.
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Let Hannah hang out with some nice guys and the drama can stem from the fact that she can't decide which hot, respectful dude she wants to leave with.
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The Nice Guys opens with a car crash, a wrecked house, and a dead porn star — and then proceeds to further entertain the hell out of you from there.
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Chad made several terrible protein shake metaphors and said a lot of things that didn't make sense, like how the nice guys are actually the bad guys and also, protein.
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But while the characters are distinctive and charming, and the dialogue is often pretty funny, The Nice Guys is a large step down on the ambition scale from Kiss Kiss.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 93% (season 1)What critics said: "You is actually a wicked satire of social media, self-proclaimed "nice guys" and the twisted ideals of romantic fiction.
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It also shows Freeman, an actor known for playing nice guys and the occasional nice hobbit, loosing the anger that he usually keeps coiled and letting his rage flag fly.
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It wasn't the most high-profile fund, but it was a $240 million fund, they would let me be a general partner, nice guys, and I just wasn't excited about it.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 19: (L-R) Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice and Russell Crowe attend the "The Nice Guys" UK Premiere at Odeon Leicester Square on May 19, 2016 in London, England.
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I went on tea dates with meditators, sex dates with polyamorists, friend dates (that turned into sex dates) with married men and myriad unremarkable dates with both nice guys and jerks.
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But again: These movies work because of their leads, and The Nice Guys has a pair I'd be happy to watch bounce off each other for another three or four movies.
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The Nice Guys sprang from the mind of Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), so the fact that it's a slick, fast-talking action movie comes as no surprise.
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When both men are wandering around on their own, The Nice Guys resembles an Elmore Leonard crime novel, full of barely connected, colorful characters whose haplessness keeps them from greater things.
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Then there are the Nice Guys—the people who seem legitimately interested in dating me, or at least proving they're not reaching out as part of some elaborate psycho-sexual fantasy.
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Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe play slapstick detectives in "The Nice Guys," and self-destruction is the focus of "Weiner," a documentary about the former New York congressman Anthony D. Weiner.
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You may have even guessed it was when he practiced gender-blind casting and had audience member Karen Hoydic play Russell Crowe's part in a scene reenactment from The Nice Guys.
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When I think back to your earliest breakthroughs as a TV actor, and the nice guys you were known for, I would never have imagined you'd end up playing Howard Beale.
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The Nice Guys looks like a buddy comedy Austin Powers but with more guns — an unsurprising choice given that it's directed by Shane Black, who wrote several of the Lethal Weapon movies.
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Think of this matchup as Ryan Gosling and George Clooney in 2011's The Ides Of March, when you knew Gosling was on his way to Oscar nominations and The Nice Guys.
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I don't get dragged into protracted, bad-faith arguments with teenage boys about whether poor people deserve medical care, or whether putting nice guys in the friend zone is a hate crime.
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JAMES R. OESTREICH A humble wardrobe malfunction at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday further cemented James Ehnes's status as one of great Nice Guys of the violin world, up there with Gil Shaham.
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Beyond this, it's clear that the incoming commander-in-chief really believes that international trade is a game in which nice guys finish last, and that America has been taken advantage of.
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In a new interview with Uproxx about his upcoming film The Nice Guys, Black revealed some frustrating details about the making of Iron Man 3, especially with regard to its female characters.
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Rather than show the Jimmy Kimmel Live audience a clip from his new movie, Ryan Gosling selected a member of the audience to help him act out a scene from The Nice Guys.
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If you've been paying attention to Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe's promotional tour for their new buddy comedy thriller The Nice Guys, it's obvious the two talented actors have become real-life pals.
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Still, judging by the final scene, Mr Black is hoping that it will be the first in a series, which means that we may get a "Nice Guys 2" set in the 1980s.
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The whole film was sold on the idea that these bad guys are cool, angry, and capable, but apparently it's more important that they're nice guys, family men, responsible parents, and swooning lovers.
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The Southern California setting and the shaggy-dog private-eye plot may remind you of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice," though "The Nice Guys" lacks that movie's wistful, slyly political sense of history.
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Ken Berry, the boyish television actor who played nice guys with affable attitudes and a wide range of I.Q.s on three popular sitcoms between 1965 and 1990, died on Saturday in Burbank, Calif.
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There are precisely five of them: Amy, Alicia (Elle Fanning), Marie (Addison Riecke), Emily (Emma Howard), and Jane (Angourie Rice, who made such an impact as Ryan Gosling's daughter in "The Nice Guys").
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Nice Guys' failings —" its shaggy-dog sloppiness and middling ambition —" wouldn't matter so much if this wasn't all familiar territory, and if Black himself hadn't covered this ground in a smarter, sharper way already.
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To be fair, Captain America faces stiffer competition in its third weekend, with two comedies — Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and The Nice Guys — and a family-friendly animated feature (Angry Birds) crowding the calendar.
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Yes, the main difference between "The Nice Guys" and Mr Black's previous films is that it is set in 1977—although not, it seems, because Mr Black had any profound insights into the 1970s.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Rarely can the phrase "nice guys finish last" have had less resonance in the sporting arena than after Aksel Lund Svindal's triumph in the Olympic downhill on Thursday.
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And anyone who has promised to overhaul Washington and "drain the swamp" as much as he did can't hope to come close to achieving those goals with a bunch of nice guys by his side.
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The Nice Guys star recalled the first time he met Gosling on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday, and explained how his now ex-wife got a little too excited about having dinner with the heartthrob.
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The clip, which is part of a BuzzFeed Celeb series to promote his upcoming film The Nice Guys, has Gosling and his co-star Russell Crowe going to couples therapy to work through their issues.
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If Uber is seen as the greedy baddie, then new companies can play the David to Uber's Goliath—or the fair trade coffee to Uber's Costco brand beans—by positioning themselves as the nice guys.
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Coppola's Beguiled boarding school is populated by some of her regular favorites — Elle Fanning and Kirsten Dunst — as well as some intriguing up-and-comers (The Nice Guys' Angourie Rice and Pete's Dragon's Oona Laurence).
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" The only club not known primarily for wealthy or athletic members is the Fox, which Jim describes as "open, fun, friendly, nice guys drawn from a range of Harvard extracurriculars, like The Crimson and sports teams.
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Following Striegel's time in jail, Black, who had been friends with Striegel for five years before his conviction and was aware of what happened, cast him in movies like Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys.
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Austria: The up-and-coming early-stage investment capital of Europe They say that nice guys finish last — and Canada, with its reputation for polite citizenry and its charming prime minister, is used to being overlooked.
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"THE NICE GUYS" is that rare thing: a Hollywood comedy thriller, featuring two A-list stars, which isn't adapted from a superhero comic, a book, a video game, a television series or a dormant film franchise.
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Why Verge readers might care: Writer-director Shane Black has a long-standing reputation for scripting fast-moving, breezy, mouthy action films, including Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lethal Weapon 3, Iron Man 3, and The Nice Guys.
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But The Nice Guys is a lot of fun in its own way, thanks to a meticulous '70s setting, Russell Crowe daring to have some fun, and Ryan Gosling providing ample reminders of his impeccable comic timing.
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When there are so few current Hollywood thrillers which forgo capes, masks and computer-generated mayhem in favour of plot, dialogue and gunplay, it's disappointing that "The Nice Guys" should end up being so tired and inconsequential.
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These are nice guys to have in a system—everyone needs backend starters and outfield prospects—but they're not going to fetch you the help you need if you really expect to compete for a playoff spot.
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Drew Taggart and Alex Pall check off so many different outrage boxes it seems almost intentional: they're simultaneously self-proclaimed nice guys, swaggering tech bros, simpering fake-deep quotes generators, and living avatars of Big Streaming disruption.
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These are people who still don't get the fact that neo-Nazis are not just nice guys who want to use their platforms to chat about the best tiki torches and how to get your whites whiter.
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Nearly two years on from its peak, the awaited pogroms against nice guys have yet to materialize, and several of the men who rightly came under fire either never really left public life or are planning comebacks.
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Originally known for writing movies like Lethal Weapon and The Last Action Hero, Black has since become known as a dual-threat writer-director, combining action and comedy with films like Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys.
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The climax of Shane Black's "The Nice Guys" involves a hectic, gunfire-riddled chase through a crowded Los Angeles hotel in pursuit of a film canister that rolls and bounces and Frisbees like something out of a cartoon.
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The night's most affecting performance came from one of those nice guys: Sam Smith, who let the soul and gospel underpinnings of his new songs "Too Good at Goodbyes" and "Pray" infuse loneliness and longing with spiritual fervor.
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Sure, there were some sweet customers who would be the first in on match days and ask how you were, but once play started and the drinks were flowing, the rowdy customers would soon drown the nice guys out.
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Because it seems to be populated entirely by self-described 'nice guys' who feel slighted if you aren't immediately impressed by their college lacrosse pics, or by the fact that they put the word 'please' after the word 'nudes.
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The Nice Guys star has been tapped to play Monroe Stahr, a film exec from the 1930s in Amazon's upcoming The Last Tycoon, which is based on the unfinished F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon.
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"We're not doing it to be nice guys, we're doing it to create jobs," said Wylly Harrison, who worked on the deal for the Georgia Department of Economic Development and said that the state was thrilled Hostess came back.
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"It sounds so clichéd, but I never knew that life could be this fun and this great," Gosling tells PEOPLE of the joys of fatherhood in an interview alongside Nice Guys costar Russell Crowe in the upcoming issue of PEOPLE.
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The latest attempt, The Predator, came from writer-director Shane Black (Iron Man 22018, The Nice Guys), and it should have been a full-circle accomplishment for him, since Black acted in the original 220 Predator movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Most films just use violence for the shock and the spectacle (which can still be fun to watch when done well), while movies by Shane Black—Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys—use violence awkwardly which is much more brilliant.
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Mr. Black, a veteran screenwriter who also directed "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" and "Iron Man 3," has a knack for slapstick anarchy, and the best bits of "The Nice Guys" arrive when someone tries to do something cool and fails miserably.
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Sporting the taxonomically useless title "The Predator," the latest movie in the "Predator" franchise comes courtesy of Shane Black ("The Nice Guys"), who appeared as comic relief in the 1987 original and seems to have taken that experience to heart.
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Barker makes the case that jerks are sometimes better at their jobs than the nice guys, because they're often more focused on gaining power, but he makes it clear that being a jerk likely won't get you far in business.
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Here's a 36-year-old version of the "Gladiator" god at a film premiere back in 2000 (left) and 16 years later ... the 52-year-old leading man in "The Nice Guys" at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this week (right).
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"The Nice Guys," starring Ryan Gosling as a bumbling detective and Russell Crowe as an enforcer in 245 Los Angeles, generated a B- Cinemascore with its strongest traction among those under 24.24 and over 4.246.5 as the $11.3 million launch matched muted expectations.
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Showing inside this fabled movie palace here was "The Nice Guys," a buddy comedy set in the 1970s by the writer-director Shane Black (best known for his work on "Lethal Weapon" and "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang") and produced by Joel Silver.
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Dear Lydia, As a guy who is trying to learn and become less entitled, I want to ask if there are any subtle things which "nice guys" will do which they think are understanding or progressive or positive, but which secretly aren't?
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His character touches at the curdled heart of modern misogyny — the pickup-artist mind-set that gamifies sex, the grievance that "nice guys" are entitled to women's attention, the craving by poorly socialized men to interact with programmable pawns rather than complex people.
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This is done with panache, yet Gosling, like Crowe, is less a natural comedian than a lonely brooder, and you can imagine an alternative version of "The Nice Guys" in which the same characters, in a similar plight, would hardly raise a smile.
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It's not a literary film by any stretch of the imagination, but The Nice Guys is the rare studio movie that feels refreshingly verbal and driven by the particulars of the English language, rather than a simple combination of plot and direction.
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Both actors accepted their roles within two days of each other, a decision that finally led to a greenlight for the project; Black had been working on different incarnations of The Nice Guys (including a television show at one point) for over a decade.
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Brisk, slapsticky and stylish — and with a bullseye-perfect role for co-lead Ryan Gosling — The Nice Guys unfortunately gets whacked at the knees by cloying cleverness, a script built on one too many kooky coincidences and characters who are obviously in on the joke.
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When Crowe's fist first meet-cutes Gosling's face, The Nice Guys still holds all the promise of a spirited disco-period caper, complete with a mismatched-buddies-duo worthy of Lethal Weapon (which Black famously wrote as a twenty-something, his VIP ticket to Hollywood).
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In their new comedy thriller The Nice Guys, Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling play a hired enforcer (Crowe) and a struggling private eye (Gosling) who are forced to work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the death of a porn star.
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Kuchar's reputation as one of pro golf's nice guys took a big hit earlier this year when word leaked out that he had paid David Ortiz $5000 from prize money of almost $1.3 million upon winning the PGA Tour's Mayakoba Classic in Mexico last November.
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Folks in these communities believe in order to solve problems we should empower people not the government, help families move up the economic ladder through free markets not socialism and achieve and maintain peace by being nice with nice guys and tough with tough guys.
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Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) was a crusty, arrogant physician in the sharp-elbowed spirit of the post-9/11 aughts, when figures from Jack Bauer of "24" to Simon Cowell of "American Idol" popularized the idea that nice guys don't get the job done.
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As The Wall Street Journal reported five decades later, it turned out that Giants Manager Leo Durocher, who is known for the famous sports quotation "Nice guys finish last," had installed a coach far in the manager's office in center field and handed him binoculars.
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But now the "nice guys" of the ride-hailing industry, as they've often been called, are about to cement their grip over their company when it debuts on Wall Street thanks to a controversial tactic similar to one used by other Silicon Valley giants.
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In his book, For the Right Reasons: America's Favorite Bachelor on Faith, Love, Marriage, and Why Nice Guys Finish First, Sean Lowe lays out one telling moment that happens in the very first episode: The first and last limo entrances are people the producers are pulling for.
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Narrowing it down to ten films wasn't easy, but since we already spotlighted The BFG, Café Society, The Neon Demon, and The Nice Guys in our summer movie preview, I decided to skip over those and focus instead on films that may not ring a bell yet.
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But the constant flippancy can also stop the viewer caring about what happens in the film, as well as sapping its momentum: "The Nice Guys" keeps grinding to a halt, and it badly needs some of Mel Gibson's manic "Lethal Weapon" energy to get it going again.
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" The baseball lifer Leo Durocher gave nice guys a bad name in the 1940s when, as the scrappy manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he said of his counterpart in the New York Giants dugout, Mel Ott, "A nicer guy never drew breath than that man there.
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In addition to an expansive list of alcoholic cocktails, Le Bar du Plaza Athenne, at the Plaza Athénée in Paris, has a "Nice Guys" no-alcohol menu with four choices, including the Mister Ginger, a combination of fresh mint, ginger ale, simple syrup and soda water.
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Release date: August 212 Why it matters: Shane Black (Iron Man 214, The Nice Guys) directs an installment in the Predator series that's set between Predator 12 (225) and Predators (225), with a cast featuring Keegan-Michael Key, Sterling K. Brown, Olivia Munn, Boyd Holbrook, Jacob Tremblay, and Trevante Rhodes.
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In Country Music, Nice Guys Finish First (for Now) Ad Campaigns Tag Along as Men Embrace Different Paths A Poet's Boyhood at the Burning Crossroads In the Art World, 'Latinx' Marks a Gender-Free Spot Politics and Leadership As Strongmen Steamroll Their Opponents, U.S. Is Silent What Donald Trump Thinks It Takes to Be a Man Picture a Leader.
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But while a new era of "nice guys" rises up the charts, as the critic Jon Caramanica of The New York Times noted last month, the genre's mainstream center is still held by charming rogues like the ones being celebrated at this performance in Nashville: Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Chris Stapleton and Keith Urban.
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Since that time—in which the "Hey Girl" meme featuring Gosling as a sensitive dreamboat blew up and the decision to name Bradley Cooper that year's Sexiest Man Alive instead of Gosling was met with actual protests at People's office—every character of his has comfortably slotted into one of two similarly alluring categories: crowd-pleasing, comedic cool (The Nice Guys, The Big Short, La La Land) and icy, taciturn cool (The Place Beyond the Pines, Gangster Squad, Only God Forgives).
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