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...script's most clever invention, Guido protects his son from the reality of their situation by turning the war into a game. In one of the film's funniest sequences, Guido translates an SS guard's orders into Italian, even though he doesn't know any of the German phrases that are being angrily barked out. Instead of translating, he tells everyone that "points" will be subtracted for missing one's mommy and crying for food. According to Guido, the child who reaches 1000 points first gets a real tank, the prospect of which makes little Giosue's eyes widen...
...dress up as "an Amazon because it's something new. I'm always a witch." An amazon? The river, perhaps, or maybe the Imax movie. Alessandra Davin initially planned on being a hippie, and then the devil, but ultimately settled on "Dracula...because...um...I just thought of it." Clever! While all frightening characters were moderately popular, the Scream-murderer attire proved to be a particular favorite. Marta Bezoari said she wanted to go as Scream "because the older you get the scarier you wanna...
...soft money into the race and to pulverize Feingold with two months' worth of blistering attack ads. By the time Feingold aired his first response in September, paid for with hard money from his own campaign, the average Wisconsin voter had already seen 20 ads against him. Many are clever, but some are downright false. One blasts Feingold for supporting Clinton's $16 billion stimulus package in 1993, and another for funding Russian space-monkey experiments--programs that Feingold actually opposed...
...course, it could never really be a Cypress Hill album without at least one pro-drug song. On their new release, there are two. The first is the hilarious "Dr. Greenthumb," which starts with a clever infomercial for a home-marijuana kit and a special screen to keep "those pesky porkchoppers" at bay. The song itself is a strong mix of bass, horns and Indian chants. The other drug song is the lackluster "High Times," which does little more than evoke memories of "Hits From the Bong" and "I Wanna Get High." Despite a couple of duds other, such...
Eddie Murphy--bald, blissful and guileless--is top-billed in this clever, derivative comedy (think The Truman Show with lower ratings) about a wandering shaman who stumbles into fame on a home shopping network. But the real star is Jeff Goldblum as the network's frazzled manager. With his lupine smile and fake-intimate voice, he pushes a line of patter that is just a bit too slick to pass for charm. And when his life starts crumbling, you can almost smell his comic flop sweat through the screen. Tom Schulman's script is smart about the media's ability...