Anthony John "Tony" Abbott (born 4 November 1957) is the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian House of Representatives and federal leader of the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Abbott has represented the seat of Warringah since the 1994 by-election.
Prior to entering the Australian Parliament, Abbott studied for a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws at Sydney University and for a Master of Arts as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He later trained as a seminarian and worked as a journalist, business manager, political advisor and Executive Director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy. Abbott has also been an author, ultramarathon runner and member of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
Abbott served in the Howard Government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs from 1996-1998 and Minister for Employment Services from 1998-2001. He joined the Howard Cabinet in 2001 as Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business. Following the 2001 Election, he took on the additional roles of Leader of the House of Representatives and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service. In 2003 he became Minister for Health and Ageing , retaining this position and his role as Leader of the House until the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 federal election.
Plot
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Keywords: accountant, afterlife, american-football, angel, athlete, back-from-the-dead, based-on-play, bicycle-accident, birthday, birthday-cake
Mr. Jordan: He's been drugged by those two downstairs. This is a murder. See how he's slowly sliding into the water?
Former owner: He got my team. The son of a bitch got my team.::Advisor to former owner: What kind of pressure did he use, Milt?::Former owner: All I asked was sixty-seven million, and he said "okay."::Advisor to former owner: Ruthless bastard.
[Tony Abbott, after ushering the shreiking Mrs. Julia Farnsworth out of her husband's office, millionaire Mr. Farnsworth who is meeting with Miss Betty Logan, returns to the office and, from the doorway, says]::Tony Abbott: Sorry to disturb you, Mr. Farnsworth. Mrs. Farnsworth saw a mouse.::Betty Logan: She just saw a mouse?::Tony Abbott: No. Before. Outside. But she relives it.
Max Corkle: You be the trainer and I'll start on Sunday.::Joe Pendleton: I'm starting against Dallas? What about Jarrett?::Max Corkle: They don't want to go with Jarrett. They want to go with you. Happy Birthday, Joe!
Joe Pendleton: She loves me, Mr. Jordan!::Mr. Jordan: Joe, you must abide by what is written.
Joe Pendleton: Do I... play Polo?::Sisk: Not really, sir.
Mr. Jordan: The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity with which others are trying to prove him wrong.
Julia Farnsworth: You locked me in a closet!
Bentley: [On the landing of the elegant stairway, near the closet where Mr. Farnsworth/Joe Pendleton meets with Mr. Jordan, invisible to everyone but himself] I noticed there are two cups.::Everett: Well, Sisk felt that since Mr. Farnsworth was pretending to talk to someone, he might want to pretend to give him cocoa, too.
Max Corkle: [whilst training Pendleton in the spacious mansion grounds] This isn't going to work. You're playing football with a bunch of butlers!
Plot
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
Keywords: afterlife, airplane-crash, athlete, back-from-the-dead, based-on-play, body-swap, boxer, boxing, change-of-identity, character-name-in-title
A picture different from anything ever screened before!
Messenger 7013: I have an idea, Mr. Jordan, couldn't we have him reborn?::Joe Pendleton: Nothing doing; I'm not gonna go through *that* again!
Joe Pendleton: I don't want anybody's body. I want my body!
Max Corkle: Ohhhh... I'm goin' around again!
Joe Pendleton: [Joe and Mr. Jordan are looking for a body for Joe to inhabit] You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink!::Mr. Jordan: That is becoming a most obnoxious color, Joe.
Messenger 7013: [when asked the location of his earthly assignment by Mr. Jordan] A place called New Jersey, sir - and if it can arranged, I would like a transfer!
[last lines]::Mr. Jordan: So long, champ.
Messenger 7013: I'm the one who says 'let's go'...