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...Flirt with a stranger, of course. “Do you like Chet Baker?” the Egyptian man in a police uniform asks the lady behind the counter at the bus station. “What?” she responds, confused. “My funn-ay Val-ahn-than,” he sings as his colleagues look on incredulously. This awkward moment­—the kind in which only one party realizes that the interaction is bizarre and the other believes they are behaving in a completely normal fashion—is characteristic...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Band's Visit | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...Everybody Really Hates Me, by Jane Read Martin and Patricia Marx (HarperCollins; $14). Adults in Roz Chast's funny-because-they're-not-funn y New Yorker cartoons look like blobby 11-year-olds, so she's a natural to illustrate the stirring tale of Patty Jane, unjustly punished for bopping her little brother. ("I did not hit Theodore. I touched him hard.") To teach the world a lesson, she decides to stay in her room forever. Snit-having Jennifers will recognize a master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Wild Things Roam | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

Desperate Scheme. The movie has to do with the efforts of a down-at-the-heels Hollywood director named Mel Funn (portrayed, inevitably, by Brooks himself) and his desperate scheme to save not just his own career but a major studio. Funn wants to make a silent movie, a comedy, of course. The studio chief (Sid Caesar) thinks Mel is nuts, but Mel, a pro, counters with the one blandishment proved irresistible to moguls on the ropes - movie stars. What if Funn and his two buddies (Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise) are able to round up some of Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mum's the Word | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

Born. A son, Kaaiohelookamaunalanionalaeelua; to Mr. & Mrs. Albert K. Funn of Honolulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...father and mother pay all the bills And we have all the funn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 4/10/1922 | See Source »

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