gump

The major characters of Forrest Gump are really portrayed quite realistically.

The Pentagon even red-lighted Forrest Gump and refused support.

In Forest Gump everyone who is anti-Vietnam war is presented as bad and the woman who choose not to stay in her home town and make house and goes to protests get aids.

Now, nobody needs a typewriter styled text editor on their iPad, but we can all imagine Forrest Gump tapping out the first draft of his story on a manual Remington typewriter.

I suppose it is possible that Steve Jobs is the Forrest Gump of technology: for thirty years, he has just happened to be standing next to the biggest innovators in consumer technology.

I like what the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co does in this regard - a simple red/green two-sided sign that you flip to red when you want a waiter, otherwise they will ignore you.

Now, maybe this author was just clueless and didn't think through the implications of his, or her, decisions; but I wouldn't blame the GP for looking at Forrest Gump that way.

According to a tech industry source, Leahy has changed his position in part as a result of pressure from the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform, a lobbying group whose law firm Akin Gump recently hired Leahy’s long time chief-of-staff.

-- Edit: A little more on the Winston Groom aside from Wikipedia: Winston Groom's price for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump included a share of the profits; however, due to Hollywood accounting, the film's commercial success was converted into a net loss, and Groom received nothing.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single "intellectual" summer blockbuster even years and years ago (maybe Forrest Gump?).

I'd decided on "Witty", as read by Forrest Gump.

There's nothing wrong with having a brand name that doesn't explicitly say what the company does (reminds me of the Forest Gump quote " We invested in some apple company ").

Unknown-ish authors are -- like Winston Groom, when he agreed to have Forrest Gump made into a movie, and got screwed by "Hollywood accounting" because he'd accepted a percentage of the profits.

It is under appreciated and typically exists in the Forest Gump/Balls of Fury/frat houses of the world.

Talking to my mother is my very own german version of Forrest Gump.

I like how the author not so subtly compares the less self-driven employees to retarded people by saying they are like Forrest Gump.