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...comedy is a curious sub-genre. Most often, movies of this type involve a character who undergoes a great deal of absurd physical tribulations as a result of his or her own stupidity. The character is usually completely unaware of how stupid they are. Example: Lloyd Christmas telling the jetway attendant “It’s okay—I’m a limo driver” when told he can’t run down the jetway because the plane’s gone. He does, and falls onto the asphalt. I don?...
...flatlands of Eastern New Mexico and West Texas, then landed with a big bump and pulled into our gate at DFW about 8 p.m. Now I steeled myself for a two-hour layover, hoped I'd at least make it home by midnight. As we filed out of the jetway, I glanced at a departures monitor and was shocked to find not one but two American flights to Kansas City - and the first one was preparing to board...
Airports resemble France before the Revolution: first-class passengers enjoy "lite" security lines and priority boarding, and disembark before the unwashed in coach--held at bay by a flight attendant--are allowed to foul the Jetway...
...rows ahead of Alpizar and his wife Anne Buechner. "He was saying 'I have to get off the plane.' She said, 'Calm down.'" Instead, Alpizar got out of his seat and, clutching a backpack, ran off the plane. Two federal air marshals onboard the flight followed him onto the Jetway, and within a minute, after Alpizar's wife cried out after him, "He's sick. He's got a disorder," they fatally shot Alpizar outside the plane's door...
...When Alpizar's wife heard the shots, she started running to the front of the airplane, but the flight attendants intercepted her, he says. "She wanted to run to the jetway bridge," he says. "We knew there were shots and her husband was out there. The airline attendant did a great job. She just spoke...