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...little plot justification. Most noticeable were his Babar ears; they made him look, one studio exec complained, "like a taxi with both doors open." (Crosby, who refused the mogul's demand that he have his ears taped to his head, did allow them to become a friendly butt of humor in his later career.) What one movie boss supposedly said after seeing a Fred Astaire screen test - "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little" - could be applied to the young Crosby by switching the "sing" and "dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby: Bing Goes to the Movies | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...Replace with: Wonder Boys This movie has everything: Laugh-out-loud humor, snappy repartee and moments of devastating tenderness. Michael Douglas turns in what would have been, if anyone had seen it, a career-altering tour de force as a lovably unkempt English professor struggling to finish his second book. Tobey Maguire and Frances MacDormand also shine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Complainer | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...Novak '01, one of Mehlinger's friends, praised the show for having "displayed Laura's sense of humor...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Fashion Show Draws Rave Reviews | 2/13/2001 | See Source »

...mongoose fight a poisonous viper. And then there's the matador story. In this TV sketch, a pick-up truck decorated to look like a bull charges a matador. "Can I run the matador over?" the driver asked. Beat's quick response: "That would be funny." Beat thrives on humor as public humiliation, but also as a refuge from the rigid social strictures of Japan. "I was sick of all the clichEs," he says. "So I started making fun of them. If there was a slogan that called for treating elders with respect, I'd do a routine about treating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beat Goes On | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...should probably be grateful to Downey, who's handled his most recent arrest with a characteristic combination of dark, self-deprecating humor and irony. While he may not appreciate the symbolic nature of his legal woes, high-profile cases like his can serve only to heighten awareness of drug laws, directing a nation's focus on the inequities inherent in sentencing and parole procedures. Is addiction a criminal activity? Our laws say yes. Do our laws treat some addicts more equally than others? Certainly. Will those same addicts achieve useful lives without intensive treatment? Probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Robert Downey Jr.'s Case Spark a Change in Drug Sentencing? | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

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