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...Ladies Man is the kind of movie I've come to describe as "stupid funny." The humor ranges from tongue-in-cheek (the V.S.A.'s musical numbers-which, by the way, are a riot) to downright crude (most of the jokes involving Leon's "wang" fall under this category), and some of the plot turns are painfully predictable. But you know what? Who cares? This movie was made purely for laughs. It tiptoes along that ultra-fine line between really bad and not-so-bad at all, and ultimately ends up on the side of the latter...
...took it as being serious... At no time did I think it was a joke or a tongue-in-cheek type thing," says James Brady, a Globe reader from Stoneham...
...more cash on hand than Clinton. Some of his attacks boomeranged: his campaign assailed Hillary for kissing the wife of Yasser Arafat, then seemed flummoxed when the White House released a photo of Lazio gripping and grinning with Arafat himself. Of such silly exchanges--You kissed her cheek! You shook his hand!--are New York elections made...
...Bushies claim the ad is "tongue-in-cheek," and perhaps it could have been. But it's just poorly executed. The narrator comes off not as likable and witty, but bitter and harpy-ish: by the time she huffs, "Re-a-lly," you can practically see her at the end of the kitchen counter, holding a martini in one hand while she lights a cigarette with the one still burning in her mouth. (And yes, that is a sexist image. But try to use positive sexist stereotypes - i.e., that women are inherently nicer than men - and you risk inadvertently conjuring...
...pretty good guess, but we also thought the Israelis would never agree to sit face to face with Arafat. Imagine our astonishment when we saw Arafat on the lawn of the White House! Clinton now calls him "my friend"! Madeleine Albright kisses him on the cheek! That's the work of fiction...