In his book on Jamie Dimon, Last Man Standing, Duff McDonald describes Prince as the ultimate ass-kisser to Weill.
As he puts it, 'It's the biggest pain in the ass - you can wait two hours to sit and the staff is hands-down the meanest - but it's most frequently giving you the perfect pizza.
People were showing up at early screenings in Kick-Ass T-shirts dressed as the various adolescent faux superheroes.
Even if I did have a bigger living room, a big-ass 84-inch TV would feel faintly embarrassing, like tractor tires on a little pickup.
A.L.L.S. The acronym, according to some, stands for Bad-Ass Load-Lifting Suckers.
The running man returns not Jason Bourne but a new character, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), another hard-ass special-ops agent who defies his superiors and keeps on moving when they try to eliminate him, racing from continent to continent and across shantytown rooftops, through crowded marketplaces, down alleyways.
The mobile Slingplayer client was, as always, seamless, and we were streaming widescreen video even on our crap-ass EDGE T-Mobile service in San Francisco with relative ease.
Glad you think Apple has lost its cool, but where I live the teenagers want Apple products, not some cheap-ass, forked-Android Kindle Fires or some second-string Android Nexus 7s tablets.
Their ranks include Christopher Nolan, of The Dark Knight and Inception fame, and Matthew Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass and the upcoming X-Men: First Class.
The action-packed Blu-ray Disc and DVD are filled with kick-ass bonus features including behind-the-scenes featurettes along with audio commentary with the director, a gag reel and deleted scenes.
After this initial foray into the mainstream, Heacock observes that usage of "kick ass", "kicking ass" and "kick-ass" picked up even more frequently from roughly the year 1990 onwards.
" 'Kick-Ass' was the most buzzed-about thing from Comic-Con last year, " panelist Holtreman said.
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Including "The Hangover, " five of this summer's 13 sequels are live-action comedies, such as Adam Sandler's family-oriented "Grown Ups 2" and "Kick-Ass 2" (Aug. 16), starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as an angst-ridden high-school student turned superhero with no actual superpowers.
The hype around the new Lionsgate movie Kick-Ass is the kind of thing studios dream about.
They tryin' to write me off, so I got this diamond pendant with a thick-ass rope chain.
Early on, a very dear friend told me very matter-of-factly to treat this cancer as a pain-in-the-ass inconvenience.
You start and finish the challenge on a rooftop in a fixed position with a big-ass sniper rifle.
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Armstrong thus becomes a bad-ass American folk hero, a Robin Hood in stars and stripes, if you like.
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Johnson, 20, played the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy and was seen last year in comic book movie Kick-Ass.
The U.S. was bad-ass, too, with 155% more phones sold, or 3x what IDC was forecasting for the overall smartphone category.
The E Street Band has come back to bring the power, hour after hour, to put a whup-ass session on the recession.
Based on a 2008 comic book, Kick-Ass tells the story of a group of high school vigilantes who dress up as superheroes.
When they do, the only guy who escapes is Pope, a smart-ass who has slayed a skitter or two in his day.
" That sounded good, and so after our last game, which I won easily, I also yelled out, "I'm a grown-ass man.
Going into last weekend it looked like the new Lions Gate movie Kick-Ass was going to be a big box office winner.
So poorly defined is he that a supporting character actually chimes in late in the game to explain that he really is a bad-ass after all.
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That, and the soundtrack: Composer Hans Zimmer's score, which includes a kick-ass version of the film's signature tune, is a perfect accompaniment to Woo's visual style.
Within the past month, HTC released one of the most kick-ass phones ever: the Droid DNA. It offers screaming performance and an insanely beautiful 1080p display.
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