The film’s supporting cast (Graham, Robert Wagner, Rob Lowe) is just ballast; its nominal director (Jay Roach, director of the first Powers film) simply there to frame the star.

ballast (n) 1: to steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold 2: to fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid 3: to keep steady; to steady, morally – source: Sight and Sound’s review of Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me

The doorbell rang, and I opened the door, and there stood the most bedraggled figure I’d ever seen.

bedraggled (adj) 1: limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud 2: in deplorable condition [syn: broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down, unsound] – source: The Making Of documentary from The Trouble with Harry R2 DVD, 06:40

Markopoulos became his polar opposite, the film-makers’ film-maker – a consummate perfectionist who developed a complex editing style (already evident in his early work) that broke cinema down to its fundamental frame-by-frame progression.

consummate (adj) 1: having or revealing supreme mastery or skill [syn: masterful, masterly, virtuoso(a)] 2: perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities [syn: complete] 3: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers – source: Guardian Unlimited

Larry David, the éminence grise of ”Seinfeld’s” glory days, is on HBO, playing a character so dyspeptic and unpleasant that he makes George, Jerry, Kramer and Elaine look like Teletubbies by comparison.

dyspeptic (adj) 1: suffering from dyspepsia 2: irritable as if suffering from indigestion [syn: atrabilious, bilious, liverish] – source: NY Times

For many, the answer to the crime problem can be summed up in just one word: Bring back Borstal.

Borstal (n) : a British reform school for youths between 16 and 22 – source: Brass Eye (episode 4) R2 DVD, 13:00

A guy’s playing a hand, I let him play it. I’m no kibitzer.

kibitzer (n) : someone who insists on giving unwanted advice [syn: backseat driver] – source: The Big Sleep R2 DVD, 1:20:44

Bet you wouldn’t have the gumption to use it.

gumption (n) 1: sound practical judgment [syn: common sense, good sense, horse sense, sense, mother wit] 2: (informal) fortitude and determination; [syn: backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand] – source: Bonnie & Clyde R2 DVD, 07:10

–What do I say? –That you’re gonna elope with him.

elope (v) : run away secretly with one’s beloved – source: Some Like It Hot R2 DVD, 1:50:20

I’m not rescinding my order to you, son, but if I find extenuating circumstances when I get there, I’ll take that into account.

rescind (v) : annul by recalling or rescinding [syn: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, vacate] – source: Thin Red Line R2 DVD, 1:06:11

You and I have a tendency towards corpulence. Corpulence makes a man reasonable, pleasant and phlegmatic. Have you noticed the nastiest of tyrants are invariably thin?

corpulence (n) : the property of excessive fatness [syn: overweight, stoutness, adiposis] – source: Spartacus R2 DVD, 1:14:14