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...York Times if you like, they sometimes get it right"). The story of a farm wife, Beatrice (appropriately illustrated with an adapted copy of "American Gothic"), who claims that an alien's wearning her husband Edgar's skin, turns out to be key and makes for a hoot of an interview with Jones and Smith. From a cheap postcard, the Bug tracks down the flying saucers as his ticket off the planet. And of course, the requisite Elvis joke...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: KING ALIEN BOOTY | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

...turn, find ourselves in a theater of cruelty, consoling ourselves with incidental pleasures: the anti-comedic darkness of Dunne's lighting and sensibility; the relentless, half-mad meanness of Ryan's performance; the snarling strength Karyo demonstrates in multiple adversity. These people don't give a hoot if they warm our hearts or lift our spirits, and that's not nothing in a time when mainstream movie comedy is all blandness and ingratiation. Too bad we can't reward their bravery with the sound of more than one hand clapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: PLAY MISERY FOR ME | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...Kurosawa to Kubrick; and above all their refusal to offer us a single likable character. Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings to go around, but a thoroughly meanspirited big-budget movie is always a treasurable rarity. And those little guys from far away are a hoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RICH FILM FEAST | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

Question: why would a guy worth $2 billion give a hoot about the sticker prices on most new cars? Answer: By chopping them down a notch, maybe he can make $2 billion more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAYNE'S NEW WORLD | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...thought that it would be a hoot...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: SHOOT TO KILL | 11/23/1996 | See Source »

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