Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dress in black, or at least wear a black ribbon, as a sign of national mourning over freedom lost. Others flaunt plastic badges of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the religious emblem associated with imprisoned Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. To show they have not lost their sense of black humor, still others express resistance to martial law by quite literally wearing a resistor, a tiny radio part, as an ornament...
...fairness to the performers, it must be said they get no help from writers who lost their sense of humor in their labyrinthine plot. The story is illogical and is without the kind of inventive startlements that make logic irrelevant to pleasure. Director Sidney Poitier is always cutting to some chase or other, all of which he handles with glum professionalism. But it is disheartening that a star team with the potential brilliance of Wilder and Radner had to take off on such an ungainly turkey...
...brevity explains its success. As a character, Mickey, like Adrian, Paul and Balboa, hasn't really changed since Rocky. But because he only appears for a relatively short time, Meredith manages to remind the audience of Mickey's likeability and commitment while avoiding over-kill. And Meredith performs with humor. He trains Rocky in a hotel ballroom, full of posters, balloons and a band that plays Rocky's theme song. Mickey turns and shouts. "Shut up back there. And change your tune." If only a producer had given Stallone similar advice...
...addition to poetry, short essays, cartoons and photographs, the magazine includes a humor section that pokes fun at various University administrators and professors...
...liners that he seems unable to control--"In Brooklyn, you learn Spanish first, then English, then Jewish"--dominate the film. Libby and her father Herb (Walter Matthau) spend most of their scenes together throwing witty remarks across the room; the audience comes to expect no more than impersonal humor. When a serious line does pop out of the dialogue here and there, rather than evoking any real emotion from the audience, it simply sits there, wallowing in sentimentality...