His failure in June to accept an offer from Microsoft that would have paid stockholders $33 a share was the coup de schnook.
Producer-Director Billy Wilder tells of a sweet-natured schnook (brilliantly played by Jack Lemmon) who shoots up the corporate ladder by turning his apartment into a glad pad .
Alan Young decided when he was 14 that he would be an actor and that his specialty would be the role of the likable dolta type that show business calls a "schnook" (rhymes.
'Kick-Ass 2': EW movie review When the original Kick-Ass hit theaters in 2010, it had three things going for it: an inspired premise about an invisible high-school schnook (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) who becomes a DIY superhero; a gonzo performance by Nicolas Cage; and a pre-teen vigilante (Chloë Grace Moretz) with a raunchy mouth.
Aug. 16, 2013 - Entertainment Weekly