Word: laconicism
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As the episodes get better, David and Seinfeld's commentary becomes a little laconic--often they just sit back and yuk at their own jokes. Who can blame them? After 15 years, it's still amazing how the show made timeless comedy out of such ephemeral material. "Where was pesto...
The tapes chronicle the efforts of American documentary filmmaker Don Larson, dazed and embittered by his grief over losses in the Sept. 11 attacks, to understand, record and possibly join the hunt for Osama bin Laden. He is accompanied by his translator, Wali Zarif, and a curiously laconic cameraman who...
Every good action director knows that before you get the boom, you need the tick, tick, tick. That instant of anticipation occurs near the start of Breaking News, when the roving dread director Johnnie To has carefully built up crystallizes in a single glance that passes between an oblivious cop...
Less a kid's fantasy than a nightmare - with horrible heights, long chases, the loss of a mother's love - the movie ends in anarchy: Dr. T.'s musical plan is foiled, the kids run amok and a Rube Goldberg-style A bomb blows the whole place up. (By now...
DIED. BOB KEESHAN, 76, who played the beloved children's show character Captain Kangaroo for 36 years on CBS-TV and public television; in Windsor, Vermont. Keeshan began acting in 1948 as the frenetic clown Clarabell on the Howdy Doody Show. Seven years later, at the age of 28, he...