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...Grease, nearly 30 years ago.) But the director - who also was screenwriter for that other hit movie musical anomaly Chicago - is counting on the marquee appeal of Foxx, Knowles and Murphy to bring audiences into the multiplex. After that, he has to trust his own craft and instincts to entertain them artfully and get a return on the $73 million budget...
...safe to say this movie isn't an easy, feel-good experience. I'm more relieved by a film that speaks truth than an entertaining film that lies to me completely. Entertainment used to mean "entertain an idea." Now it means evade your life...
...interpretation of parliamentary procedure. Haddock did not allow council members to overrule his decision, which further upset supporters of the bill. Approximately 15 council members in favor of the act left the meeting in an attempt to block any vote from taking place.Now, Haddock says that he would entertain and sustain a point of order to correct the record. Greenfield’s constitutional amendment would be struck down, and the Student Group Non-Discrimination Act could come into effect.Haddock would not say whether or not he would rule that the act has passed...
...battle to argue Colbert's stand-up into something that will be universally acknowledged as funny, the liberal commentariat has shifted tactics. Salon?s Joan Walsh, for instance, pretended to grant that humor was subjective: "Let's even give Colbert's critics that point. Clearly he didn't entertain most of the folks at the dinner Saturday night." But whose fault is that? Why, those who were not entertained, of course. The tepid response "tells us more about the audience than it does about Colbert." Not laughing, it turns out, was part of the press corps? master plan, because "Colbert...
...better educated than they appear to be. They have chosen their bus, and their home-schooled children are both smarter and less anxious than the Munro kids. On the other hand, if we are truly an open society, we have to be open to learn to reserve judgment, to entertain the possibility that things (and people) are not necessarily what they seem at first glance to be. That thought sometimes applies to movies as well. Maybe this tacky, low-life movie, featuring an over-abundance of jokes about flatulence and other embarrassing bodily functions, has a - well, er - slyly instructional...