Word: jonah
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...movies. That's one good thing about Apatow: he subverts the medium's inherent aesthetic fascism - survival of the cutest - and puts funny people center-screen. His mission to devolve the notion of the leading man continues in this fall's Rogen-Apatow comedy Superbad, which will star Jonah Hill, next to whom Rogen is Redford. Meanwhile, the very presentable Rudd, whom Apatow keeps casting as the hero's best friend, has yet to get a lead role. It's like Bizarro-World Goes to Hollywood...
...says his writing partner, Evan Goldberg. The script has had considerable punching up since then, but there's still one joke in the film that they wrote that day. "Superbad for me was the funniest and tightest script I had ever read. Those guys are like baby geniuses," says Jonah Hill, who plays the high school senior based on Rogen in the movie, since the real Rogen, even after double-shaving, could no longer play the part he wrote for himself...
...Slavs” last year. He delivered again in “The Fantasticks” with a brassy, over-the-top and yet consistently impressive interpretation of Hucklebee, an angry, middle-aged gardening-enthusiast father. Meanwhile, Glaser’s Mortimer, the sidekick to Henry (Jonah C. Priour ’09), threw his whole body into well-executed slapstick. Glaser’s acting was particularly effective in the show’s stylized fight scenes, which allowed the full expression of his immense comedic talents. The set, designed by the directors, and the costume design (by Olivia...
...Jonah Eaton, LAUREL...
When a jabbering, flourescently-dressed Marielle E. Woods ’08 first strutted onto the stage of “Reception” with a shell-shocked Jonah C. Priour ’09 in tow, I followed Priour’s example and settled back into my seat in chagrined resignation. Woods’ schizophrenic movements within the confines of the bedroom set was quickly making me claustrophobic, and I thought that the rest of the play would be similarly overdone...