Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that dope and all that goes with it is not potentially funny--far from it. Yet Cheech and Chong, who wrote as well as starred in the movie, just don't seem to know how to tap the possible sources of humor. The laughs are too easy, too cheap, too shallow--it seems as if they got high one day and wrote up the movie in a couple of hours, but forgot to double check and see if it was funny when they regained their normal states of consciousness. All the obvious jokes are there--people stumbling around, people eating...
...they get stoned. Obviously when a movie gets off to such a fast start it has a hard time maintaining its peak of humor...
...persona as glutton serves as the vehicle for much of the humor in Alice, Let's Eat. In this rambling, anecdotal frolic, Trillin regales us with stories of domestic spats that have arisen in his family due to his gastronomical ardor. When traveling, he constantly gets into arguments with his wife, Alice, about whether to see the sights or eat. Trillin can't understand Alice's "strange fixation on having only three meals...
...Francisco Entrepreneur Gary Dahl sold a million Pet Rocks at $4 each in 1975. This month, after three years of living off his profits, Dahl is returning to the packaged humor market with a new product: one-inch-square acrylic cubes of Red Dirt, to be sold at $5.95 each...
...that he's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, with a quick wit, a dry Arkansas drawl, and the best sense of humor this side of North Little Rock. You can say that he had a passion for running the football, and for playing the game, that surpasses any passion most people have for anything their whole lives. And you can say that he had the most pure running talent of any back ever to attend Harvard University. And that he never got a fair shake here...