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...comedy Gilmore Girls. Most unfortunate is Everwood's narrator, the town school-bus driver, who's in the Bagger Vance tradition of the wise black man put on earth to comment on the white stars' spiritual healing. And for every flash of Gilmore-esque zippy dialogue, there's a groaner. When Brown proposes the Colorado move, Ephram says, "That's Harrison-Ford-in-Mosquito-Coast crazy!" Brown responds, "You say crazy; I say"--all together now!--"it might be the sanest thing I've ever done...
...This musical badinage, from the film "High Society," refers to the Bing Crosby character, a Newport aristocrat on the outs with his fellow swells. But it might also refer to the status, then and now, of the original Groaner. In the early '30s Crosby had created, or certainly synthesized, the craft and tone of modern pop vocalizing. The summer of 1956, however, when "High Society" premiered, was the sweltering season of "Hound Dog." Genteel warbling of the Crosby stripe was two generations passé. First it was supplanted by Sinatra's aggressive poignance; then it expired in the steam Elvis...
...groaner--two thumbs up," Gibson added...
Near the end of the second period, Drury and Konik were on a 2-on-0 break. After drawing the goalie over, Drury feathered a perfect past to Konik who shot a groaner high and wide past the open net. But Konik wasn't the only one blushing after the contest. Seconds into the third, Drury was the recipient of a perfect 2-on-0 pass himself. Facing a similarly empty goal, Drury missed wide left with a low wrist shot...
Naked Gun's script thrives on the same groaner puns and absurd hyperbole that distinguished Airplane! When the movie's villain, played with oily elegance by Ricardo Montalban, offers Nielsen a cigar he says, "Cuban?" "No," replies Nielsen, "I'm Dutch-Irish." Montalban's dignified demeanor is a perfect foil to Nielsen's hapless bumbling...