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...mixing drinks becomes a form of performance art, a quick route to saloon celebrity. Act II: See Tom slink, as he dumps a young woman of sweet substance (Elisabeth Shue) for life on a leash held by a rich bitch (Lisa Banes). Act III: See Tom furrow his boyish brow in a moment of reflection and win the girl of his revised dreams. Sure, fine, why not? Love with the proper heiress propelled many an affable screwball plot in the '30s, when stars made a new movie every few months and one more airy, romantic comedy was no big deal...
...most striking examples appear in new ads for cars--one for the British car manufacturer, Sterling, and the other for Rolls Royce. Both ads use quotes from high-brow authors who are in the canon of high culture...
Schickele says that today "a lot of contemporary music concerts are grim affairs." Rather than have his listeners sitting attentively with "knitted brow," Schickele says he hopes to leave his audiences in stitches...
Andre Patenaude, 48, stepped forward, bowed deeply and began singing: "You must sell goods with the sweat of your brow . . ." When he finished, the crowd burst into applause. One of the other singers screamed, "You passed!" and flung himself at Patenaude in a congratulatory embrace. The crowd applauded again. "I don't know what it is," said a young woman pushing her grocery cart toward the parking lot, "but they sure are serious about...
Literature has gone to pot because all the great young writers and Mark Twains of today are now in Hollywood writing the Great American Screenplay. Thus novels today stink and are too caught up in the high-brow theories of our great colleges and boring to read...