Word: deadpan
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...Alabama native who now lives in Chicago, has been quietly assembling an impressive body of work. Spinning into Butter, about the ramifications of a racist incident on a college campus, had a successful run at the Goodman last year. Her earlier play The Glory of Living, a shockingly deadpan portrait of a teenage girl who helps her husband abduct and kill young women, was produced at London's Royal Court Theatre early last year and won Gilman the Evening Standard award for most promising playwright. Yet because none of her work has been seen in New York City--that theater...
...much publicized union in bed of Sharon Stone (making amends for offending gays in Basic Instinct?) and executive producer Ellen DeGeneres. It's the reunion of lesbian DeGeneres and funny DeGeneres. This romp about lovers trying to conceive with purchased sperm well exploits her sorely missed deadpan delivery and timing--though Stone daffily and unconvincingly prances through it, and the two click with all the passion of someone forced to pet a snake. Still, you have to like a story that makes a turkey baster into a token of endearment, and if the lesson is that a lesbian love comedy...
...news one afternoon in Bethpage, L.I., is a solar eclipse that closes school and opens a few minds. But in this deadpan comedy from a former costume assistant to Woody Allen, it's always the night of the living dead. The emotional zombies are disguised as parents and teachers. If they weren't so well behaved, they'd scream with perplexed rage. The only bright spot in this spiffy shtetl of depression is the manic, half-Italian Judy (The Sopranos' Edie Falco), and she's leaving town. Barbara Barrie, Bob Dishy and the late Madeline Kahn shine in a pristinely...
...JEAN: He has that deadpan sense of humor. I bet he hangs out with pretty snazzy people like him. He looks pretty snazzy. I don't think necessarily his roommate is like him, but he seems a little like a loner. A little difficult to get under the surface...
...elders. The screenplay, by Steve Kloves, genuflects to the camera's love of young faces and promotes Grady's best student (Katie Holmes) and his weirdest (Tobey Maguire) to lead roles. But the pulse of Curtis Hanson's direction is lethargic; the comic bits are so slack and deadpan you could mistake the film for an earnest drama--an Afterschool Special for troubled kids and their pooped parents...