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Still, once the initial prudishness wears off, Tenacious D becomes funnier each time you put it in the CD player...
...would be tremendously clever even if it weren’t mocking falls in musicals such as Les Miserables. And all of the scenes that depict dead characters are accomplished not only with the right amount of hokey acting and writing but with a low budget effect that grows funnier each time it recurs. Like similar on-the-cheap elements in the show, it humorously riffs on the low budget nature of Urinetown while exposing the frailty of such a device when employed seriously in other musicals...
Some of Lydia Davis' stories are shorter than this review, but they are funnier, smarter, and will prove more memorable. In deadpan prose, Davis turns philosophical snippets into fiction, with moving results. It is rare for a writer to challenge the tradition of storytelling and still be a pleasure to read. Davis' stories are as clear as children's books and somehow inevitable, as if she has written down what we were all on the verge of thinking ourselves...
There's not much Dynasty-style camp here, just a great cast and sardonic writing by creator Mike White (Chuck and Buck). Judging by the polished pilot (directed by Diane Keaton) and the weirder, eerier and funnier follow-up, this is the best take on the creepy rich since Fox's short-lived Profit (1996). Pasadena may offer few Champagne wishes and caviar dreams, but it addictively retells one of the oldest stories in the world: your family is the strangest mystery you will ever unravel...
...America at the turn of the century, both are preoccupied by the angst of simply coping with daily life and both offer their own unique conceptions of what it means to live in contemporary America. It’s funny that these novels should share this concern and even funnier that the idea of the American novel, whether typical or great, has room for such mundane and ambitious discussions. But perhaps nonfictional interpretations have nothing truly definitive or authoritative to say about the tangled web of symbols and desires and realities that compose our experiences. Perhaps the very messiness...