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APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD Virginia Senator George Allen, the political gag gift that keeps on giving, is in the news again. This time it's over his alleged failure to disclose stock-option grants and other transactions in companies like Xybernaut, maker of, in the A.P.'s words, "a computer people can wear on their heads." Just what Allen needs: Dunce...
...can’t even believe that this happens, but the penultimate shot of the trailer is Al telling a crowd that he’s thinking of running for office in 2008. So, the country is subjected to a movie that’s just a campaign ad? Gag me with three spoons...
...think, at that moment that my smug - oh, all right, liberal-minded - chuckles began to gag in my throat. Although other viewers of this film may find their laughter dying earlier, possibly when a home-schooled child is being instructed the earth is just 6,000 years old and that its warming is, like evolution, a myth perpetrated on the faithful by mad science. Or when Harry Potter and the gang at Hogwarts are talked about as the devil's disciple...
...Most of the movies so-called victims, however, ask for it. The film's running gag is that Borat, like all of his supposed countrymen, has a childlike fear of Jews (a joke, of course, since Cohen and most of the film's primary perpetrators are Jewish). In his home town, the annual event is the Running of the Jew; and when he and his team travel across the U.S., they decide to drive (in an ice cream wagon) because his producer "insisted we not fly, in case the Jews repeated their attack of 9/11." While in the South, Borat...
...Still, Fame Becomes Me shows what can happen when smart TV gag writing is given some Broadway polish, and a performer who can squeeze every ounce of juice out of a line, and then italicize it with a bodily contortion you don't expect to see in people older than eight. "Just remember," Short says, in one of his mock-sincere moments after returning from rehab, "my rock bottom is still your wildest dreams." I'm not quite sure why the New York critics who lost their heads over Spamalot - a lumpier,and even more self-referential show than this...