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...Setting the roomablaze, Depeche Mode provided the perfectcomplement of frenetic entertainment to the othergroups' down-to-earth nature. With twosynthesizers, a spastic guitarist/vocalist deckedout in Ramones style, a deft percussionist,dancing feet and techno lullabies titled"Sardines" and "Depeche Mode is Not for You,"Depeche Mode was a necessary comic relief thatdeserved third place in the judging...
...biblical illustrations of 19th century French artist Gustave Dore and the paintings of Impressionist Claude Monet, which use contrasting strokes of color to create a sense of light and space. "We want the audience to respond to our film the way we respond to fine art, not to a comic book," says art director Kathy Altieri. None of this comes cheap: the film costs about $65 million if you ask DreamWorks, and almost twice that if you ask the competition...
Mamet's fictive world was distinctive from the get-go. His plays, beginning with the 1974 Sexual Perversity in Chicago, wrapped Pinteresque menace in comically precise diction, like a gamier Damon Runyon. It was Jewish guys talking like Italian guys about life, death and, always, a poignant memory of the perfect woman, long ago or never. ("Bobby," says the dying cop in Homicide, "you remember that girl that time?") But at 50, Mamet has other concerns. The overtly serious work tends to be about Jewishness (in his play The Old Neighborhood and novel The Old Religion); the nastily comic, about...
Jack's also caters to professional clowns and jugglers, providing them with assorted shades of pancake makeup and comic eye lashes. Oversized props like huge scissors and flowers add the traditional touch. Jugglers delight in sets of balls, plates, bean bags, scarves and the ever infamous devil pitchforks. For stage performances, Jack's carries plenty of stage blood and liquid latex...
...heraldic theme music, the swooping graphics and the story meetings ("Get me a show, people. Anything but same-sex marriage"). By keeping the pol-vs.-pol scenes brief, Markus has made the show specific enough to Nightline to satirize the genre but general enough to life to tap the comic angst of the human condition. Watch, and you'll see one from each of the major office types: the tightly coiled executive producer (played by Miguel Ferrer of Twin Peaks), who humors Freundlich with drunken promises of future anchordom written on a cocktail napkin; the booker (Sanaa Lathan), who reports...