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...World Cup of Storytelling’? 2. FM: Can you explain the quote of yours about Pangea Day, “Once you get to know someone, you can’t kill them”? JN: It’s harder to kill them. If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of ‘the Other’ and a dehumanization of ‘the Other...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Jehane Noujaim | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...pals are involved) is pitched largely to a young crowd that apparently likes to see pretty people - especially upwardly striving ones like Diaz's character - humiliated and abused in ways that are stupefyingly familiar. I'm beginning to think that these kids represent a resentment demographic, less eager to laugh than they are to exercise spite and envy at peers who want to grow up sensibly rather than throw up mindlessly in some sleazebag movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happens in Vegas Stays Sucky | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...real job, a person does something useful. Giving away pictures of funny-looking cats would not count. In the real world, if someone approached a passerby on the street and offered to trade a red paperclip for his or her house, he would probably be ignored, or laughed at, or punched in the face. But, somehow, such encounters are possible on the Internet—and the Internet came alive at MIT this past Friday and Saturday at the first-ever conference for Internet phenomena: ROFLCon. ROFLCon’s mere existence is worthy of a big fat star...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘ROFLCon’ Explores the Art of LOLing | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” the romcom centered around one man’s attempt to do just that. The first hour of the film is objectively funny, reveling in the structure of the riff and creating an environment in which the audience feels compelled to laugh at just about anything. It’s an experience well worth the price of admission. After the first hour, though, the film falls off. Even more so than any other in the Apatow line, “Sarah Marshall” struggles to come to a close. Or perhaps more accurately...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: When Boys Just Wanna Have Fun | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...Londoners will very soon decide which mayoral candidate enjoys the last laugh. The voting process, which allows voters to indicate their first and second preferences, adds to the unpredictability of the result. If no candidate wins more than 50% of the votes outright, then all but the top two candidates are eliminated and any second-preference votes for the leaders are added to their tallies. The Green Party is encouraging its supporters to give their second vote to Livingstone; some fans of the Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick, once the highest-ranking openly gay officer in London's Metropolitan police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London's Mayoral Race: No Joke | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

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