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...skin than she did as the Queen of Hearts in “Alice in Wonderland” this past May. She also works elegantly with Olivia A. Benowitz ’09, who plays the character Sally. Benowitz’s every word is worth a laugh; in keeping with the play’s balance between levity and depth, she delivers one of the play’s most contrary lines: “I was drawing a pink unicorn, and then everything was futile.” Linus (Andrew G. Sullivan ’06) reaches equal...
...These are ripoffs, not homages, but they are also emblematic of a movie that is essentially a special-effects extravaganza . It is, I think, a universal truth of movie making that effects are never funny. They can sometimes wow you, but they can't make you laugh, and Depp cannot stand up to the hubbub they create. No actor can. He can only serve them, which involves him in derring-do that any actor could do about as well as he can. He needs to be involved with us, not with the lunking machinery of the movie. When, for example...
...takes more than a body slide to impress some jaded vacationers. One swoosh down Totem Tower at the Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg, Va., and Andrew Lappas, 5, seemed bored. "I thought, Uh-oh, one run and we're done?" his father, Chris Lappas, 40, recalls with a laugh. Before long they discovered the indoor water park's longer, steeper tunnel slides--they start atop a four-story staircase and snake in and out of the cavernous hall into a plunge pool below--and Andrew was hooked. "We proceeded to go down about 25 more times," Lappas says...
...Stephen Colbert Funny? If you didn't laugh at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the bloggers insist, you're a White House lackey...
Were the consequences of underestimating terrorists neither so grave nor so fresh, it would be tempting to look at the seven men indicted on conspiracy charges for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower and laugh. Not so much at the suspects--five American citizens, a legal immigrant from Haiti and an illegal Haitian national, all of whose hardscrabble bios make them seem more sad than sinister--but at those who considered them a real threat to wage, as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales put it, "a full ground war against the United States." FBI deputy director John Pistole conceded that...