Word: humors
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...Coen Brothers Burn It Up!Richard Corliss apparently does not have the same sense of humor my friends and I have [Sept. 22]. In the theater where I saw Burn After Reading, everyone laughed throughout. The Coen brothers are very smart about people who do stupid things. The scene in which the detective tries to speed away but has parked between two cars and cannot get out is right out of a Road Runner cartoon. Wile E. Coyote is alive and well! Judith Canaan, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Richard Corliss apparently does not have the same sense of humor my friends and I have [Sept. 22]. In the theater where I saw Burn After Reading, everyone laughed throughout. The Coen brothers are very smart about people who do stupid things. The scene in which the detective tries to speed away but has parked between two cars and cannot get out is right out of a Road Runner cartoon. Wile E. Coyote is alive and well! Judith Canaan, KALAMAZOO, MICH...
...also has a message about alienation and a terminal need to belong in an America that is more concerned with institutions than people. Gregg is hesitant to explore this theme, and instead harnesses only a fraction of his cast’s abundant talent in search of cheap sex-humor that distracts from—if not totally ignores—that message.To the extent that “Choke” has one, the movie’s saving grace is its cast. Rockwell, in his second top-billed role after George Clooney’s 2002 sleeper...
...they lead suffocating lives. They are closed in by poverty and the small towns they live in; their lives are bleak—sometimes too bleak, as in “Flowers for Marjorie”—and yet somehow Welty is able to demonstrate moments of humor and human insight. Nevertheless, I had only read a limited amount of Welty and wanted to get to know her more intimately, so I picked up “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty” when I got back from Argentina this summer. Argentine culture and literature...
...final twist is less shocking than it is groan-inducing. There are only a few good things to be found in the extremely mediocre movie experience that is “Righteous Kill”. At the beginning of the movie, De Niro and Pacino trade barbs of black humor in the midst of murder scenes, which are good for a laugh. De Niro gives a disturbingly disconnected voiceover throughout most of the movie, as he recounts the death visited upon the film’s numerous murder victims. Also, if you love trendy pop culture icons, the movie features...