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Bowfinger, perhaps the funniest movie for grownups so far this year, recounts the attempt of the desperate former to feature the fame-addled latter in his absurd project. Basically, this involves making Kit the star of a movie without telling him he's in it. That in turn requires Bobby and his crew to stalk and provoke the star into photographable action. Since Kit is at least half convinced that he is being plagued by space aliens, these intrusions add fuel to the flame of his pathology...
...have personally written about 180 pages of [the book]--and all of that's going in," he said. "That leaves what--two pages each for the rest? If you take the 100 pages they've written and condense it down to two pages, that's going to be the funniest part of the book. I mean, it has to be--the law of averages or something...
...couldn't deal with seeing myself on those tapes, I don't think I could have handled having my dorkiness deconstructed by 16-year-old girls around the world. So instead, I'll gladly do my entertainment duty by taking a ball in the groin for America's Funniest Home Videos, just like everybody else. Because, I now realize, after watching loads of The Real World, that there are few things quite as cringe-inducing as listening to people try to describe who they are. Except, of course, in a magazine column...
When her top choice Yale accepted her, she and her family moved to Connecticut. And when Harvard offered her a teaching position several years later, Bruzelius recalls, her friends "thought it was the funniest thing they had ever heard" that she was returning to an alma mater that she remembered less than fondly...
Next to James Thurber, she was probably the funniest serious person who ever lived. She was learned and scrupulous and very brave. She spent the past three years dying of cancer, yet so alive was she with ideas about world events, she made one forget the inevitable. Her small, frail body would shake with rage or laughter at Clinton and Monica, at Congress, at her beloved city of Washington, which she would ridicule in private and defend against outside assaults, as one would a foolish child...