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...above taking liberties with them, and provide Arachnophobia with welcome comic relief. Marshall's wit (he co-wrote Blazing Saddles) is evident in his direction of a series of suspense-ridden false alarms. He keeps the audience off-balance by allowing it at times to come away with a laugh when expecting another gruesome killing. A typical example is the shower scene, an obvious allusion to Psycho, which comes to a far more humourous conclusion than Hitchcock's version...
...strangles, which seems to be the horse version of a bad head cold. During the visit, I realize the Amish man is not a curiosity or an artifact, but a man not much different than my father: rational, hard-working, serious about his job but quick to laugh at a joke...
...wackos and murderers aside, Ghost is a little like Caspar in that it doesn't have a mean bone in its body. This is a well-intentioned, often corny and misguided movie. If the hilarious mugshots of Oda Mae from her charlatan past don't make you laugh, the special effects will. Ghost is bad enough to be good, and sweet enough that you'll forgive its transgressions...
...never seen an entire football crowd laugh before...
...Others laugh more heartily at this than Young does. The exact degree of Young's blackness has always been a matter of debate in and around the S.C.L.C. Nor does Lowery let the matter drop. "We were just over in Cape Town, where they have all these degrees of color -- whites, Indians, coloreds, blacks. I don't know just where I'd put you, Andy" -- with an appraising look at him across the dais -- "somewhere between white and Indian and colored...