Word: humorizing
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...been directed and choreographed (by, respectively, Jack O'Brien and Jerry Mitchell) with a zestful respect for the tone of the piece. There's as much sassy humor in the actors' movements as in their dialogue...
Moore is an ace propagandist. He employs excoriating anger (a zippy montage critical of U.S. interventionism, from installing the Shah of Iran in 1953 to giving $245 million in foreign aid to Taliban-run Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001), then switches to breezy humor (a larkish, South Park--ish animation on whites' fear of blacks). To a former producer of Cops, he suggests a spin-off: Corporate Cops, in which guys like Ken Lay would be strip-searched...
Despite the appetite for more Lecter movies, the $80 million Red Dragon almost didn't get made. "Hannibal was a big hit," says an agent, "but most people in Hollywood thought it was an awful movie that almost killed the franchise." With its baroque gore and pitch-black humor (Ray Liotta ate his own brains), the movie was jarring compared with the more subtle Lambs, which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. And even though Manhunter made peanuts at the box office, it is highly regarded by some filmmakers...
...Canada, by a country mile. "The result was clear and consistent throughout the whole thing," Wiseman says. They just didn't find much to laugh about. I don't care so much about what made Germany laugh, or what made Canada not laugh, or that France - surprise - likes surreal humor, or even that America - surprise, surprise - likes jokes that make people feel inferior. Nor am I worried about the self-esteem of ducks, surprisingly rated as the funniest - and thus the most laughed-at - creatures. ("My money would have been on the chicken," says Wiseman.) I am, however, worried about...
...science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research organized the event, which the Harvard Computer Society, Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association and Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics co-sponsored...