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...expand the racial horizon of its previous films by giving a bit role to superhero Frozone—celebrity voiced by Samuel L. Jackson—who gets approximately 15 minutes of screen time. More successful is Pixar’s attempt to challenge Dreamworks on the belly-laugh front: when Jack Jack, the Incredibles’ baby reveals his unique powers, a roar of laughter went up that rivaled or exceeded anything the Shrek series produced...
...things weren’t close enough around the country and the details showed trends in my own home state that I just could not handle. Laugh at me, I deserve it. I should’ve remembered that Michigan swings for a reason. I should’ve understood that those vehement letters in my local newspaper against gay marriage weren’t some random crazies, but part of the 59 percent that would vote for an amendment to ban it. I should’ve seen it coming when old friends from high school finally joined thefacebook.com...
Johnson has to laugh...
This unclear sense of irony is only confounded all the more with The Lyre of Orpheus. Though intentionally opaque and periodically über-theatrical (especially in the opening eponymous track), Lyre is never quite too much to make you cringe or laugh. Indeed, part of what makes it so intriguing is its way of doling out just enough minimalism (“Babe, You Turn Me On” and “Easy Money”) to musically temper the fact that, lyrically, this is an album built from an erudite classical myth (fittingly, perhaps, about...
Granted, a lot of people have come to need the wink to tell them what to laugh at. And Arrested Development draws a dark picture of family relations: "What we have is not a family," Michael tells his son in the season-two opener. "It's a bunch of greedy, selfish people who have our nose." But the show is no more avant-garde than, say, Seinfeld, and it's less misanthropic. At some level, the Bluths need one another; they are the only ones who know what it is like to be Bluths. "We're not saying, No hugs...