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...being marketed as a comedy (if one that doesn’t shy away from the occasional coffin-encased gun slinger), “The Ice Harvest” is much murkier and bloodier than the trailers suggest. It evokes both the cold moral grayness and the acerbic humor of “Fargo.”According to Ramis, the hazy blending of genres is no accident. “By following the map of the script, the film results, it becomes what it is. Then you put a label on it.”All the actors praise...
...Harvard Square audience a taste of his newest jab at the right last night. Speaking to a group of about 350 attendees at the Charles Hotel, Franken promoted his newest book “The Truth (With Jokes).” While still filled with his traditional political humor, the book is more serious than his previous publications, which at times was reflected in Franken’s speech. Reading aloud from a chapter with a passage about his father’s death, Franken choked up and needed a few moments to regain composure. But he was able...
...definitive animated comedy. And it’s all because of the members of a mysterious “Castle” located on the corner of Bow, Plympton, and Mount Auburn Streets. A semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon churns out comedy writers as efficiently as it prints copies...
...show’s first producers, George A. Meyer ’78, credits the Lampoon with fostering his love of comedy. “At the Lampoon, people take humor very seriously. There was nothing more important on earth than laughing and making other people laugh,” Meyer said in a 2004 New Yorker article. And although no members of the Lampoon would confirm, deny, or supply information, at least 22 “Simpsons” writers graduated from Harvard. For one season, 10 out of 12 “Simpsons” writers were former...
...different floors of the hotel. While she waited for one group to go and the next to arrive, Rice, full of nervous energy, paced the hall, popping in on junior staffers as they typed or proof-read. ?Condi never got tired, never lost her edge or here sense of humor,? says a State Department negotiator. By 4:30 am the parties had agreed in principle. Rice allowed herself a two-hour nap, then went back into meetings until the six-page agreement was ready for release, shortly after...