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...There is not a lot of scintillating dialogue in The Bank Job, but there are plenty of kinky sexual allusions and it includes a torture sequence about as brutal as anything you're likely to see in the movies these days. The only major laugh line is supplied by Lord Mountbatten, that grandest of all modern courtiers. Recruited as a kind of bag man for the secret service, he receives the nasty photograph of the Princess, with the blithest of comments: "She always was a scalawag." But this picture is not after comedy, it is aiming for larger ironies...
...first attempt at sex with his long-standing girlfriend and the resultant emotional scarring. Illustrating everything good about the book, Vebber’s tale is uproarious, raunchy, and, every so often, sweet and touching. Though he finds himself deflated in his attempt at sex, he is able to laugh at the episode and ends the chapter praising the love he has now found with his family. As the book goes on, the solid lineup of writers consistently performs. To keep the reader thoroughly engaged, many chapters experiment with forms other beyond plain prose. For example, Alex Gregory, a cartoonist...
...wistful eyes hint that she wants more from life. Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand skillfully captures Miss Pettigrew’s understated wisdom. She speaks sparingly, but when she does, she says something either charmingly clumsy or surprisingly perceptive. Sometimes the sheer absurdity of her situation makes you laugh, but not without regrets—this woman has suffered in life and teeters on the brink of poverty, but she gets the chance to live again in the course of a single day. The movie’s production values work well together, creating a nice backdrop...
...recognized as a healthy supplement in an irony-poor culture. Even Zondervan grudgingly admits that the Bible item was "in the spirit of legitimate satire." Rick Warren (WARREN TO BUY SAINTS, BUILD PURPOSE-DRIVEN FIELD) e-mails Lark items to his flock and says, "If you can't laugh at yourself, you have a pride problem. These guys are the best...
...then something happened. From a distance it seemed that her charming, self-deprecating appearance on Saturday Night Live - and SNL's reprise of a debate skit in which MSNBC moderators gang up on her - might have changed the zeitgeist. "Do I really laugh like that?" she asked her doppelgänger Amy Poehler, whose Clinton laugh resembles Clinton's laugh only in its awkwardness. Poehler nodded, laughing, and Clinton's "Yeah, well ..." response seemed more spontaneous than anything she had done on the stump in a month of electoral massacres. If nothing else, SNL had tapped into the slow boil...