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...directing: "It would be great to be a director. They get to do anything! They have people killed, blow things up, make people cry and laugh. Directing ^ is just like creating life." "It is a very masculine thing to do; they all end up in the hospital after a picture. It's a hard job." She said she hoped to start with a small-budget film. "Something sensitive with two people." She was determined, though, not to appear in a film she also directed. "That is the biggest mistake, unless you're Woody Allen...
This book is, however, a comics anthology, and considered as a collection of modern cartoonists' work, it enthralls. A few of the off-the-wall humorous pieces miss their mark. But such works as Drew Friedman's "Laugh Makers," in which Shemp Howard, "Ugliest Man in Hollywood," has "His pick amongst a virtual smorgasbord of Tinsel-town starlets"; and Daniel Clowe's "The Laffin' Spittin' Man," in which a practical joker commits suicide with a toy gun, are darkly hilarious...
...goes a long way toward explaining the popularity of the Simpsons and other Fox shows at Harvard. It is essentially a safe, easy kind of condescension or snobbism. The kids in Beverly Hills 90210 get mocked for cheesiness, Married With Children for stupidity, Studs for its total idiocy. We laugh at them for being so lame, and our own lives look much better by comparison...
...largest U.S. public relations firm, had been insulted by bad language used by an executive from McDonald's, a prospective client. As a result, Dilenschneider boasted, he refused to accept the fast-food giant's business, even though he was awarded the account. "We didn't know whether to laugh or cry," recalls a top official who attended the dinner. "It simply wasn't true. We had placed third in a recent bidding for the account. Bob lied straight to our faces...
...mostly fists and kisses. But when a monologue works -- directly, unmediated by elaborate sets and scripts, with one gifted person on a stage -- it can work big. Richard Pryor proved that with his first two concert films. He scalded all civilized pretensions off his persona and helped audiences laugh and gasp at the exposed wound. Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby and Andrew Dice Clay also did monologue movies, but they lacked Pryor's life-or-death juice; they were mainly marketing tie-ins to the comics' celebrity...