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...office record its first weekend out and has grossed almost $25 million worldwide - aided in no small part by the Catholic Church's angry public boycott of the film. Those numbers have Hollywood recruiting Latins like Juan José Campanella, whose Son of the Bride, a touching comic drama about family and mid-life crisis, is being remade in English starring Adam Sandler. What are the U.S. studios looking for? In today's Hollywood, says Campanella, "the emotional element is missing. Once upon a time, American films could guarantee 'You'll laugh, you'll cry,' but they don't know...
...more spooked and confused than smiling at the end of this show, it is worthwhile for the superb acting, particularly in the supporting roles. Sarah Porter delivers as the tough, ornery maid Olivia, even if Olivia refuses to deliver for her employers. She is particularly brilliant in the early comic scenes with Faiman. The duo walks the fine line between comedy and tragedy, giving the audience both a laugh and a chill as they physically and verbally abuse one another. Though the comedy dissipates as the play charges forward, Porter handles her role as the awkward caretaker of Nena perfectly...
Greene and Faiman, in the lead roles, both spend most of their time on stage in fits of hysteria or rage. While both do well in their comic moments—Faiman, in particular, plays well against Porter’s lisping Olivia—their drama becomes overwrought and tiring at times. Most of Greene’s lines are delivered with shouting, banging and throwing, which gets to be a little too much in the small space. He seems lost whenever he delivers a low decibel line, often raising his voice towards the ends of lines, so that...
...really keen on preemptively protecting you from bad guys.’ You know what folks? I don’t want the bad guys to have the next move. I don’t want to see two more big buildings blown up.” The comic intimated that he found “our approach to the war on terrorism to be amazingly nonchalant.” For that matter, Miller stressed that the election had been “a mandate...saying, ‘Listen! We don’t want these morons trying...
Maybe if Saddam had a better comic repertoire he’d be safe? The foreign experts were doubtful. As one might expect, there was plenty of hostility toward George W. Bush at Charlie’s on Sunday. Most suggested that their friends back home viewed Dubya as the typification of America, a swaggering and headstrong cowboy determined to shoot down everything in his path. (Even if the Democrats can’t register these foreigners to vote, perhaps they should consider hiring them as speech writers...