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...sense of humor. I'm a relaxed person, and I use humor to be happy in my work. In a multilateral, multicultural environment like this, 24 hours a day, there have to be some common bonds, and humor is one of them. If I couldn't tease people, I wouldn't be able to function...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Louise Fr?chette | 3/27/2006 | See Source »

...triple-sec alternative to Mel Brooks' very wet humor, Peter Greenaway is the commercial cinema's pre-eminent avant-gardist. Back before he made The Draughtsman's Contract and 8 1/2 Women, he made meticulously malevolent short films (seven are collected here) and The Falls, a three-hour fake-umentary about 92 people whose lives were altered by a Violent Unknown Event. The textual and textural density is intoxicating, the English wit so dry you could choke on it. A sturdy challenge for movie lovers--and unmissable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 DVD Sets From 5 Greats | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...more political humor, visit time.com/cartoons

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punchlines: Apr. 3, 2006 | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has a wicked sense of humor. It's why men with pipes are attracted to him. He does a good line in self-deprecation as well. Just last week he told reporters, "I am but a humble laborer in the world of politics from the Adelaide Hills." Still, the Liberal Party's self-styled toiler gets around. Downer recently charmed U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her short visit; Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and China's Premier Wen Jiabao are in for a treat, too. Downer's hyper-funny side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Funny, Even Serious | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...only thing the film does to keep your focus is crack jokes. Chester has a wicked sense of humor, but it appears too infrequently to produce a lasting effect. Instead, he drowns his film in a fictional New York City where gay relationships are the norm and heteros are an endangered species...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adam and Steve | 3/23/2006 | See Source »

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