Word: jokes
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Shepard, premier playwright and matinee idol, fits the cowpoke boots just fine, but he is too snaky and controlled to play a tortured loser. Basinger remains an in-joke of Hollywood casting directors; 46 other American actresses could have made some emotional sense out of May, or at least sent her smoldering in mystery. Stanton, with his haunted, pinched face and chirruping alibis, steals the show--or, rather, is awarded it by default. And Randy Quaid, as a gentleman caller, is a perfect audience surrogate: decent, dogged, perplexed by a family squabble that admits no strangers to its terrible embrace...
...Welcome to the Club Fed." That is the line rock musicians lay on each other these days when they arrive at the Plant Studios, a rock-'n'-roll recording facility in Sausalito, Calif. The reason for their nervous joke is that the Plant is owned by the U.S. Government. Federal marshals seized the studio in September after its owner was accused of buying the establishment with money from drug manufacturing. The Plant, which has recorded platinum albums for such artists as Stevie Wonder and Fleet-wood Mac, is considered one of the country's ten best studios and rents...
...leader of 1 billion Chinese was joking, of course; he lost part of the hearing in one ear long before he launched the world's most populous nation on an audacious effort to create what amounts almost to a new form of society. But, as might be expected from the diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.), steel-hard Deng, 81, it was a joke with a sharp point. If in his more solemn moments he still attempts to justify what he often calls his "second revolution" in the name of that patron saint of Communist revolution, Karl Marx, Deng is well...
Other former colleagues spoke last week of a King rarely seen by the public. In a discussion at Atlanta's Morehouse College, King's alma mater, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young recounted how his mentor used to joke with his lieutenants about the violence they faced on the road, launching into mock eulogies of his aides, embellishing his speeches with ridiculous details about "the deceased." Remembered the mayor: "He had us rolling on the floor. He made us laugh so much at the possibility of dying that we weren't afraid...
...with-you hullabaloo is Judge Marie Lambert, a seasoned New York City politician who runs her surrogate's courtroom with a singular feistiness. "Will someone turn the lights on back there?" she hollered one morning last week after taking the bench. "This place looks like a funeral parlor." A joke about funeral parlors during the biggest inheritance case in state history? It may be that for Lambert, a self-proclaimed defender of widows and orphans, this case arraying one against the other is a test of her emotional fortitude. She had frequent run-ins last week with attorneys...