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DIED. AUBERON WAUGH, 61, acerbic British writer, journalist and satirist and son of celebrated novelist Evelyn Waugh; in Taunton, England. Waugh published the first of his five novels, The Foxglove Saga, in 1960, but won greater fame from his journalistic career, becoming renowned for the comic vitriol of the columns he wrote for a diverse range of publications, ranging from the up-market daily The Daily Telegraph to the satirical magazine Private Eye. Forecasting his imminent demise in an interview in November, Waugh said: "Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore...
...Ritchie is Madonna's new husband. But cinephiles know him as the creator of try-anything violent crime farces. A couple dozen hard guys plot stupid heists, shout droll obscenities and, for punctuation, kill people. Imagine the stateroom scene from A Night at the Opera, only everybody's packing. Comic congestion is Ritchie's game; he's like a Preston Sturges who's done time...
...MIGHT NOT The comic camping is too facile. Malkovich's Teutonic twittering soon palls; he was funnier, and eerier, when he was being John Malkovich. And Merhige has gone a bit mainstream for those of us who treasure his 1991 Begotten as a great phantasmagoric weirdie: black and white, no dialogue and plenty creepy--just like Nosferatu...
...roles, as the torturer and a drag queen) and Sean Penn, in gold tooth and brownface, as a skeptical peasant. Penn's twisted delivery of the line, "I won't join the rebels"--it comes out "I no yoin thee rebels"--is just one of this film's unintended comic highlights...
...After nearly 50 years of drawing "Peanuts," the world-famous cartoonist put down his pen in January, his hand gone shaky, his vision blurred. Being a comic strip artist was all he had ever wanted. On February 12, 2000, a dark night of pouring rain in Santa Rosa, California, Schulz got into bed a little after nine o'clock. He pulled up the covers. At 9:45 p.m., just hours before the final "Peanuts" strip appeared in Sunday newspapers around the world, Charles Schulz died - his life entwined to the very end with his art. As soon as he ceased...