Word: laughingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...read the same psych books we have. To see Cutter coquettishly discussing "duty" to get out of a drunk driving rap is to see how pathetic movies like Coming Home were. Cutter's injuries are part of his life and more safe from exploitation or degradation than someone's laugh or the school someone when...
...curious: in a season when the brightest American film makers hope to provoke nothing more complex than a belly laugh or a body blow, the Disney organization has produced a movie that confronts the Dostoyevskian terrors of the heart. In tone, The Fox and the Hound is a return to primal Disney, to the glory days of the early features when the forces of evil and nature conspired to wrench strong new emotions out of toddlers and brooding concern from their parents. The Fox and the Hound lacks the craftsmanship and concise wit that brought a dozen or more characters...
...word of the change spread along Broadcasting Row in Manhattan and through the Hollywood production centers, condolences for Silverman were mingled with hosannahs for Tinker-as if John the Baptist had been beheaded and the Messiah proclaimed on the same day. Said George Schlatter, producer of Laugh-In and, for Silverman, Real People: "Freddie is imaginative, inventive, aggressive. He tried a lot of things, but unfortunately they didn't work. But then, TV is a monster. It eats up shows, performers and executives. Grant will be taking on a tremendous amount, but there's an enormous sense...
Murray's greatest asset, of course, is that he makes the audience feel like laughing, and that, as any comedian will tell you, is half the ballgame right there. Jack Benny could send his audience into hysterics with one squeaky note on his violin. Johnny Carson can turn a bad joke into a kneeslapper with a single bland stare, and Murray can send up lines so well by just standing there with that bemused, half-dopey smile on his face, that by the time he utters a word, the audience is ready to laugh at whatever he says...
...make the transition from rock 'em-sock 'em plot to a little self-deprecating dialogue or visual humor. Richard Lester masters this problem early on, and with good performances from his stars, gets you to root for the good guys at the same time that you laugh at them...