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...rushes [the unedited reels of film that were shot that day], and it's still amusing, but when they cut the movie together, it doesn't work. Because the beats of comedy are in the cutting. If a director doesn't know what he's doing, a laugh can disappear. Most of the time, the laugh in a film is the reaction someone gives to the supposedly funny moment...
...next several years, Jenkins says, he was forced to study more propaganda and translate English radio broadcasts into Korean. In 1981 the school finally reopened, under the name Mydanghi University, and Jenkins taught there for four more years. In 1985 he was fired for good, he says with a laugh, when the Koreans realized that his English was actually having a negative impact on the students' skills...
...from Yahoo! and Microsoft, QQ boasts 74% market share in China. Profits rose 44%, to $40 million, in the first nine months of this year. But Ma hasn't abandoned his tech-geek lifestyle--except for one thing: "I don't sweep the floors anymore," he says with a laugh. --By Michael Schuman/Hong Kong
...unless you are Dame Edna), those shows are cheaper to produce than full-scale plays. "You've got a lot less risk with a one-person show and pretty much the same opportunity to make money," says Jay Larkin, an executive producer at Showtime, responsible for Cantone's show, Laugh Whore. And since many of the shows are built around stars with a presold audience, they're easier to promote. "We've got to be realistic," says Hal Luftig, the lead producer of Whoopi. "We're asking people to pay a lot of money. There's comfort in knowing what...
...Charlotte's wedding planner in Sex and the City, is a talented, high-voltage performer with a bag of good impressions (Julia Child, Sammy Davis Jr.) and a bitchy, high-camp sensibility. But despite some second-act musings about his family, including his mother's death from cancer, Laugh Whore seems a largely impersonal, oversized cable-TV special. Which the Showtime-produced show soon will...