Word: humorous
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There are, however, plenty of things one can talk about. Crowe does occasionally struggle with Nash's Southern accent, but there is a compelling conviction, an emotional openness (and humor) in his portrayal of a man living almost entirely within an increasingly frightening fantasy that resonates eerily with America's larger cold war paranoia. Connelly is equally fine as his beautiful, distressed but loyal wife. Finally, after he has been reduced to a near vegetative state by shock therapy and medication, there is authentic inspiration in Nash's decision to fight his way back to a semblance of sanity...
...noise of the first crash traveled two miles north to the Alphabet City firehouse that is shared by Engine 28 and Ladder 11. In good humor as always, Mike was sitting in the front office joking with guys changing shifts when the computer spit out the white slip of paper summoning Engine 28. The six men of Ladder 11 suited up and waited for their slip. Michael Cammarata, 22 and still living in his parents' basement, dialed his father. "Tell everybody I'm all right," he said. Lieut. Michael Quilty, the senior officer on the ladder, called his wife...
...always had a white trainer, we see the frontiersman in buckskin learning from the Indians how to best handle the dangers of the woods. In his chanting of doggerel before fights and speaking of himself as "so pretty" and "the greatest," he was heir to the charismatic insolence and humor that have always defined our national bad boys...
...DAVID LETTERMAN'S POST-SEPT. 11 RETURN Irony was dead, they said. Humor was unseemly. And late-night comics, those unacknowledged legislators of America, no longer had anything to say to us. Yet it took a late-night comic to voice, movingly and indelibly, how we felt. "We're told [the terrorists] were zealots fueled by religious fervor," said the subdued but resilient host. "If you live to be a thousand years old, will that make any sense to you? Will that make any goddam sense?" And just as important, he--and his counterparts at The Daily Show, South Park...
...bearded Muslim studying in Yemen. That he could grow the requisite beard was something of a miracle. Were his parents really onboard with all this? With the new name? The move to Yemen? Frank Lindh says yes. "He was always intellectually coherent, and he had a wonderful sense of humor," Lindh told reporters. "And none of that changed when he converted to Islam. I never had any major misgivings...