Word: humority
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...surprising, given that it is populated by children who have lost limbs to the land mines that plague the region. "There's an Iranian expression that says, You can cut off a man's head with cotton," says Ghobadi, 36. "So this is our cotton, this sense of humor. I tried to soften the grief and the sadness because if I told you everything that was sad, nobody could watch the film." At first, Satellite (delightfully played by Soran Ebrahim) is a relatively cheerful friend, protector and boss to a group of orphaned children who collect mines to sell back...
...Tripp also cites accounts from Washington wags of that period who noted that the 16th President regularly shared a bed with David Derickson, one of his guards, whenever his wife Mary Todd was out of town. Tripp throws in a handful of other bunkmates, Lincoln's bawdy sense of humor and his stormy relationship with his wife to argue that the Lincoln bedroom was the site of behavior surprising from the founder of a party that wants to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. (Have the Log Cabin Republicans known this all along...
...Steve Zissou, a mix of underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau and infomercial king Ron Popeil, Murray again plays a middle-aged man disappointed by what he has become. The actor has tremendous admiration for Anderson's ability to write flawed characters that have reservoirs of humor and dignity. For example, it takes a while for Zissou to get on the road to redemption because his ego is so achingly monumental. When he tells his wife (Anjelica Huston) about a grown man who may or may not be his illegitimate son (Owen Wilson), Zissou says, "I believe...
...Although humor is only a subtle part of his recent film performances, Murray still enjoys making people laugh, and he treats any kind of public appearance--a spot on Letterman, throwing out the first pitch at a Cubs game, his frequent rounds at charity golf tournaments--as a chance to recreate the spontaneous charge of Second City. "The best thing I do all year is Pebble Beach," he says. "There's 18 greens and 18 tees. That's like 36 shows--and that's just the formal rooms...
...show also wrings awkward humor out of the small humiliations of actor life, as when Bryan does an ER episode and forgets cast member Deezer D's name. ("You probably thought I was Mekhi Phifer," says the peeved African-American actor.) Best is the relationship between Krista and her son Jake (Allen's adorable real son Jake Moritt, 7, the show's breakout), who gets cast in a movie Krista tries out for. Soon she's going to kiddie auditions--at one a show-biz mom advises her to get his ears surgically tucked--and finding her answering machine filled...