Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Judge Mental (Ron Duvernay), wants the witches for a traditional roast, but the Mayor has them in mind as potential subjects for "medical experiments." (This persistent line, even more egregious when pronounced in a German accent, is the one real misstep in a script which otherwise admirably achieves humor while sidestepping the truly tasteless.) Rounding out the posse is the simpering Mona Lott (Brad Daley), who has been carefully coached to shudder incontrollably when confronted with supposed witche...
...band music while Debbie cracks jokes and offers encouragement. Considerably more demanding is Raquel Welch's Total Beauty and Fitness. The 44-year-old star folds her body into positions that will leave most of her viewers in awe. The macho Armed Forces Workout has unexpected touches of humor: a tough drill sergeant barks commands to the accompaniment, at one point, of Culture Club's Do You Really Want to Hurt...
Little about Fathers Playing Catch with Sons is new, but then, little about baseball is new. That constitutes its charm: the repetition of timeless patterns, refreshed by talent, energy and humor. Game-starved aficionados, it is less than two months to opening day. Until then it is well to remember the name and work of the old knuckleballer Donald Hall. How do you spell relief...
...When I was on the Lampoon there were people becoming lawyers with good sense of humor, doctors with good senses of humor, etc. Now I see people giving seniors thought to writing comedy, which before the 60's was going against the grain," says Beard, co-founder of the National Lampoon...
...Lampoon tends to make repeated oblations to the humor deities of past generations," says Theodore P. Friend...