[Last Visible Dog]

Remine is a shuck-and-jive furniture-chewing ham amateur magician

Vade,

Pardon me but I have never heard the term "furniture-chewing" before - what does it mean? I googled and all I could find was stuff about getting your dog to stop chewing the furniture.

Thanks
-LVD

[VadeRetro]

Bad overacting is "chewing the furniture." Really, it doesn't Google? I thought it went back as far as "break a leg."

[VadeRetro]

AKA "chewing the scenery."

[VadeRetro]

Your Google missed Ben Kingsley, for starters.

Who doesn't love and admire actor Ben Kingsley and his riveting performances as Gandhi or Don Logan in Sexy Beast or Behrani in House of Sand and Fog? But now comes word that the actor born Krishna Banji insists on being called "Sir Ben" in social situations. (Sir Ben was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in the New Year's Eve Honors List of 2001). This year, Academy Awards voters reportedly aren't too impressed with Sir Ben's requirement. And the actor only seems to have dug himself deeper with this defense: "I think 'Sir Ben' is lovely. The word 'mister' has just disappeared for me. It's like, when you become a doctor after years of study. I suppose after years of chewing the furniture, I get the 'Sir' for being a thespian."

http://www.bensherwood.com/weblog/2004_02_01_bensherwood_archive.html.