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...zingers (that's a showbiz word for jokes). So it all sort of comes out of the conversation, the reparte, the bonhomie if you will, of the situation. So basically what it involves is just letting an audience know from the beginning that it's okay for them to laugh. After the first night we put in a little sort of schtick at the beginning with Dan[iel J.] Goor ['97], who plays the butler, who sort of comes out and does a sort of little funny thing. I'll let it be a surprise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 'Spirit' of Repartee and, er, Bonhomie | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

...goals from 25 yards out that have hit the back of the net before the goalie even saw the ball," Delellis says with a laugh. "It was amazing. She does work on her shot, no matter what she told you. She stays after practice every day and shoots for a half-hour...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: W. Soccer's Newest Shooting Star: Freshman Naomi Miller | 10/24/1995 | See Source »

Keaton would have been 100 this week--he starred in his first film 75 years ago--but his work requires no scholar's indulgence for antique art. It is fresh and universally funny. Watch, laugh and marvel: this is movie comedy as it should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: KEATON THE MAGNIFICENT | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

...quickly put on the stage. The lad toured with his family until 1917, when he entered films as second banana to Fatty Arbuckle. In 1920, Keaton left Arbuckle to make his own movies. The medium was still in its infancy; comics were pioneering the craft of making people laugh at moving images. Keaton, it turns out, knew it all-intuitively. His body, honed by vaudeville pratfalls, was a splendid contraption. And as a director, Keaton was born fully mature. He was just 25 then, and as eager to mine the potential for film-flammery as he was to design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: KEATON THE MAGNIFICENT | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

...tale fantasy in which it isn't. What if three drag queens drive into a small, dreary heartland town and add style, brighten lives and create miracles? We believe because we want to think miracles can still happen. Save yourself from passing judgment. Let audiences go see a film, laugh and enjoy a good old-fashioned fairy tale for a change. JERRY AYERS Waxahachie, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1995 | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

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