Word: fake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Poop Ship to descend on Butt-F**k, Mass., or wherever we are." The next 15 minutes could only be described as a paean to the mothership of all things flatulent. It began as a trudging grind-core chant to the ship itself, progressed through a rendition of every fake farting noise that can be coaxed from the human body and came to a head with an extended lounge jazz breakdown. The Poop Ship never did come through for Ween, but that didn't stop them from delivering a great show for their fans and entertaining the uninitiated. So what...
...Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Train of Life is yet another foray into the human condition during the events of World War II. Director and writer Radu Mihaileanu presents the humorous story of an Eastern European Jewish shtetl (village) and its fantastic escape from the Nazis on a fake deportation train they build themselves. Never mind that it was historically impossible for such an event to have occurred. There is no ultimate reality principle in cinema, and this French language film acknowledges that life is better portrayed when it is idealized...
...There is a certain severity beneath the lighthearted attitude the movie adopts--not every scene is a humorous denial of the life or death crisis the shtetl faces. The villager elected to play the head fake Nazi goes through his own psychological crisis, and the whole ordeal seems to sorely test the shtetl's religious faith. Even as the shtetl is fleeing death, it runs straight into its own humanity. The most serious crisis in the movie occurs not when they are dealing with real Nazis or are otherwise close to disaster, but when they explicitly ask if God exists...
...Shlomo who frames the entire movie. He is the village fool, but following a long literary and dramatic tradition, this fool is ultimately the wisest of them all. Not only does Shlomo come up with the original fake deportation train idea, but he continually saves the day along the dangerous journey to freedom by coming up with more silly and crazy plans. He is simple, carefree and innocent, and this allows him to be, at times, the only one who is fully aware of what is at stake in their struggle. French actor Lionel Abelanski is blessed with an endearing...
...rest of the game, she heard her cousins yelling "Toothless Twelve," in reference to her jersey number. After the game, Sturdy went to the dentist to get her mouth outfitted with a fake tooth...