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Sandler may see Anger Management as a step in the maturing of his movie image: penis envy has replaced peeing as a running gag. He also surrounds himself with a high breed of stooge (John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Heather Graham). And even a longtime Adamophobe has to admit that Sandler is an agreeable presence here, and that the film has some funny filigree work to offset the oppressive schematics. It should make audiences happy. But then so did most of his earlier movies, and they were lame, gnat-brained pieces of demagogic...
...overlooked straight man, wants to quit the act and put on a play he has written called "A Tight Squeeze for the Scarlet Pimple." This provides an excuse for a lot of dopey vaudeville patter, bad puns ("I Camembert it"), goofy songs, silly walks and men wearing dresses. Typical gag: the show's producer, Mike Nichols, is lampooned onstage as "Mike Tickles"; each time his name is mentioned, the fellow is tickled. This is the kind of aggressively lowbrow humor that American critics generally excuse only because it's British. I found it just tiresome, though partly redeemed...
...talk too openly; one Shanghai doctor reports that local hospitals were warned by municipal officials last Thursday not to speak to any media, even the state-controlled Xinhua News Agency. This muffling was mandated to quell public panic over the outbreak, says a Guangzhou journalist, whose newspaper received a gag order directly from the Central Propaganda Bureau in Beijing: "The party's biggest fear is social instability...
...fact, Glover says, the Letterman bit was an Andy Kaufmanesque gag, an attempt to bring art everywhere, and he has been booked on the show many times since. The gynecological chair, he explains, is just an old medical examining table that serves as an objet d'art in his apartment. And his immersion in character, he says, explains his reclusiveness on the Willard set, his darkened trailer and the way that before his first rat scene, after much discussion with his director on how to handle it, he screamed, "I didn't expect there to be any rats...
...resource designed to raise cultural awareness for any and everyone. The current organizers of La Vida at Harvard (Olivia Cancio, Camilo Becdach, and myself) are trying to reach out to the entire community, not just a select few. To have such efforts portrayed as a gag leaves me questioning whether The Crimson’s efforts to diversify its staff are truly sincere. Honestly, who would want to comp a newspaper that one day glorifies the efforts of the Latino community and the next day makes fun of those same efforts? Perhaps The Crimson does even not realize the immense...