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...sell to Yanks, mainly because it's pretty much lifted from a Ben Stiller movie: hapless Sam (Kyle Bornheimer), just engaged, tries to impress his future in-laws, but every attempt ends up disastrously. (In the first episode, he accidentally convinces his wife's family that her father is dead, a social faux pas in most cultures.) It's game if unambitious, with plenty of misunderstandings and physical comedy that involve the violation of poultry. By the second episode, there are signs that the premise may not sustain for long (the title, after all, gives it only a week...
...mind after exposure to the horrors of genocide.“Senselessness” may be 142 pages of stream-of-consciousness thoughts that inevitably digress, but it is far from senseless. These page-long sentences are a haunting mélange of the voices of alive-yet-dead Indian survivors, a song drilled into the head of the narrator, who is eventually overcome by these ghosts of the past. Moya’s descriptive language captures the narrator’s progressive deterioration, so that by the end of the book, the author makes us wonder if we haven?...
...falsely perceived as doing that. We didn't set out to parody zombie movies with Shaun of the Dead. If anything, that film was a parody of romantic comedies. The zombie element in that film is entirely serious. With Hot Fuzz, we didn't say, "Let's spoof action movies." We just wanted to make an action film. Because we're from a comedy background, it's a comedy...
...some 920,000 drug compounds Roche owns, which the researchers at its U.S. headquarters spend their day mixing and matching in the hope of finding the next cure for diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis or even cancer. Until now, however, 9 out of 10 times these searches have yielded only dead ends...
...April is the cruellest month, breeding the first signs of summer out of the dead land. But April will be especially cruel next year, for the roots of the rarest lilac have been dug up, and whose fair bloom will welcome the nascent summer never again...