Word: adams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Within its ethic of fake, WWN constructed an impressive cosmology. It focused on nearly every aspect of world and otherworldly news. The paper ransacked Bible history, then rewrote it, from Genesis (the Garden of Eden's first lovers were Adam and Ed) to the Ten Commandments ("Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" had the codicil "unless you in turn are willing to share thine own wife with him") to the Last Supper (where the main course was pizza). But the supreme WWN Biblical expos?e, which I read in 1994, had a headline that read, as I recall...
...while Hollywood is being honest about the new strain of guy-meets-guy comedy - bromance, the word writer Dave Carnie coined to describe the strong emotional attachment of one man for another - maybe Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler should come out of the closet too. In Ferrell's movies, male merging beats female interest to a pulp, and his latest, Blades of Glory, allows him several opportunities to stick his face in Jon Heder's crotch. Sandler's summer hit, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, took guy-guy friendship to its logical conclusion: two firefighters get married. At least...
...Larry) that talk was the new sex. But in that film Meg Ryan got laughs by faking an orgasm. If you go back to some of the great romantic comedies of the 30s and 40s - Bombshell, The Awful Truth, The Women, Midnight, Ball of Fire, The Lady Eve, Adam's Rib - you'll see that women got to be at least as witty as the men, and that was very witty indeed. And it wasn't only male writers inventing funny things for actresses to say; some of these films were written by women (as was When Harry Met Sally...
...Hairspray, he became that, partially because of the good-student, athlete competitiveness he brings to acting. "I made him jump on the bed and make out with this photograph. I mean really make out," says Hairspray director Adam Shankman. "He would just do it--but do it with such a level of total abandonment and commitment. The only people who I see that from are really genuinely good actors. He was always asking for more takes. Never satisfied...
...With reporting by Adam Smith/London