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Leno, in his usual non-Tonight show uniform of blue jeans, blue-jean shirt and cowboy boots, held a thick wad of index cards on which were written jokes supplied by him and various writers. Propping his boots up on the table, he read in a deadpan voice, "With all the controversy about silicone breast implants, a lot of women are changing to saltwater implants. They're a lot safer, but the trouble is, some women have noticed barnacles growing on them." Smirks all around. "Barnacles -- great comedy word," said Martin. Brogan, not sure the joke was in good taste...
...crazy: she's married to one of her mother's old lovers and is having a fling with a drag queen who impersonates Becky. When Becky returns to Spain after years in Mexico, the lover-husband dies too. Welcome back to the loopy world of Pedro Almodovar. In this deadpan update of the old Lana Turner weepie Portrait in Black, the writer-director of Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! tosses his usual salad of mad love, acrobatic sex and cross-dressing, and garnishes it with a chorus line in a women's prison. High Heels careers like a runaway...
...movie welds snippets of scenes from the novel to elements of the writer's life: his accidental shooting of his wife Joan; his friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Paul and Jane Bowles; his own sepulchral charisma. With his cracked voice and deadpan insolence, Burroughs was the Beat Generation's W.C. Fields -- a raconteur of depravity, a cracker-barrel coroner. Weller gets the haunted look right, but he can't get inside the junkie's pocked skin. Burroughs lived and nearly died there; Cronenberg and the actors are only visiting. The movie is way too colorful -- cute, in a repulsive...
TRUST. Typical Hal Hartley dialogue: "Will you trust me?" "If you trust me first." In this deadpan romance, the writer-director limns the palship of a pregnant high schooler (Adrienne Shelly) and a sociopath genius (Martin Donovan). Another fond sketch of losers from the down-scale version of Woody Allen...
Intellectuals and academics made him uncomfortable. Their questions about theology and philosophy were met with the deadpan reply, "We must believe in free will. We have no choice." Singer's favorite readers were the very young because "children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics." Besides, "they still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation and other such obsolete stuff...