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DIED. SHELLEY WINTERS, 85, zaftig, high-decibel star who played some of the movies' most famous victims; in Beverly Hills. Born Shirley Schrift, she had the attributes of a '50s Hollywood dish--latkes, perhaps--and could twist prim dialogue into raunch with her throaty laugh. But the shrillness in a Winters character gave men homicidal urges. She was strangled by Ronald Colman (A Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary...
...what makes Muslims laugh? The Muslims on my crew told me Sikh jokes like "How many Sikhs does it take to play a game of chess?" I had a Hindu driver, and guess what he told me: Muslim jokes...
...traditional children’s movies for aggressive characters, trite cartoon gags, and curious casting decisions; Xzibit, for example, sheds a little more of his dignity by providing the voice of an irritable grizzly bear/police chief. But “Hoodwinked” isn’t a laugh-free affair: when the characters aren’t talking, the writers manage to get off a few smart references and clever spoofs. The detective in charge of the Hood case is a frog who dresses and acts like William Powell’s Nick of the classic...
...tall and slender with a throaty laugh and the kind of honestly pretty face that bespeaks the no-nonsense attitude of a supporting actress who really believes in supporting her fellow players. "I don't have the looks to be a Hollywood diva," she says. What she has is a love for those acting communities that quickly form to make a picture (and as quickly disperse). "That's why I'll go on something based on the director," she says. "If you're working with a director you respect, they're going to accrue people who are similar-minded. They...
That's when Marco Pennette, the creator of the show, informed me this wasn't a meeting. All sitcom writing, it turns out, is done by committee. One of the writers eventually says something that makes everybody laugh. Then Marco approves it, and a writers' assistant, who sits at a nearby desk and never talks, types it into the script, which appears on huge TVs on either side of our table. This, I was surprised to learn, is exactly how Shakespeare wrote...