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...renegades bent on a better Bay of Pigs invasion and Mafia overlords whose motives are as shadowy as their methods. As history, the explanations are no more satisfying than any others. As literature, the portrait of Oswald's strange world -- especially his bizarre mother -- is richer, spookier and eerily funnier than anything else on the subject...
...have been excoriating. You've been subject to recent headlines like USA Today's "Conan: Still No Reason to Stay Up" and multiple mentions in Esquire's "Dubious Achievement" issue. Entertainment Weekly took a shot below the belt in its Oscar review with "Oh Whoopi, even Conan would be funnier...
...Cora is funnier when she is keeping her distance from Ray. It is really too bad though, that she never works things out, because we feel always as if resolution is possible and that Ray could be good from her (in spite of the goo) if only she would grow...
Ionesco's work was often likened to Samuel Beckett's. In The Chairs, for example, an old couple at a lighthouse fill a room with chairs to prepare for an orator who turns out to speak only by growling. Most of Ionesco's works were funnier than Beckett's, more verbal, richer in farcical action and far less despairing. In Soprano, mock-philosophical discussion shaded into nonsense. The Lesson, a portrait of a megalomaniacal teacher, reflected dark satire of the powerful. Rhinoceros blended those themes with a manic physical portrait of a city where everyone turns into a rampaging beast...
...pretense to generational relevance aside, at its core, "Reality Bites" is basically a standard love triangle story, in which Leleina has to choose between the more stable Michael and the less stable Troy. It's kind of like "The Piano," except Ben Stiller is a lot funnier than Sam Neill and Ethan Hawke doesn't have any visible tattos...