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Squeezed into eight relatively succinct hours, Arthur Hopcraft's adaptation tidies up the sprawling novel a bit. One regrets the loss of a few of Dickens' colorful minor characters, along with much of his humor. (Where, for instance, is Mrs. Jellyby, that ardent philanthropist who ignores her sorry children while campaigning to help the natives of Borrioboola-Gha?) Bleak House was, perhaps, not meant to be quite as bleak as this...
...University of Minnesota contract and the presence of a son on the Irish campus. Formerly of William and Mary, North Carolina State, the University of Arkansas and even the New York Jets, Holtz, 48, seems a little peripatetic for Notre Dame, but he certainly has the right humor for the job. "Everyone in Minnesota has blond hair and blue ears," Holtz has complained, but has he ever seen a leprechaun? --By Tom Callahan
...actors understand that the essence of being stylish is ease and zest, not straining for artificial mannerisms. Pownall (also author of Master Class) merges the wry, knowing voice of the novel's narrator with the character of Mr. Bennett, whom Austen describes as "a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve and caprice." That fusion provides a moral center, and Kiley gives perhaps his finest performance since Man of La Mancha as a father who really does know best. --W.A.H...
...Humor Anonymous Lawyer www.anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com Deadpan and ironic, this delicious insider account of life at a big law firm is pure fiction-and should be required reading for attorneys who haven't yet learned how to laugh at themselves. Being a lawyer, according to the author, boils down to "fooling clients into believing [we] have some real expertise and using fear and manipulation to extort excessive hourly fees." He rails against idiot clients, partners and associates, admitting "you can't work at a place like this and have integrity." But he's not offering apologies, only rationalizations. What separates him from...
...Humor McSweeney's Internet Tendency www.mcsweeneys.net This site has amused and delighted fans for years, but has hit new levels of inspiration with funny bits like the recent Baseball Knowledge Will Not Help You Pick Up Girls. There's an archive full of Lists (Embarrassing Things That Might Happen to You While Using a Lightsaber) and Reviews of New Food (on blowing bubbles with Skittles gum: "You would have far better luck coaxing a sphere out of chewed-up crayon and oatmeal"). Affiliated with, but separate and distinct from, the quarterly print literary journal McSweeney...