Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...portray the outside world from which Leopold is excluded, transforming Lucy (Jessica Walling), Leopold's unrequited mistress, into a lascivious lover who must compete with the male "friend" Bertram, for the professor's attention, and juxtaposing the confused living room existence of the actual drama with cascades off-stage laughter between Leopold's friends, Suzana (Jessica Fortunato) and Edward (Thomas Parks...
...risque humor (Patsy to Edina: "Have you got some knickers I can borrow, sweetie? I didn't get home last night"). Trendiness is neatly skewered (Edina's into aromatherapy, reflexology and rebirthing). And the stars are abfab. Jennifer Saunders, who writes the show and plays Edina, can evoke both laughter and sympathy just belly-sliding down a flight of stairs. And Joanna Lumley is delicious as Patsy, ogling a leather-jacketed adolescent, chasing a handsome stranger into an airplane loo or casually pulling a pregnancy-test kit from her purse...
Sixteen hours of anger, sorrow and laughter filled eight microcassettes, each smaller than a bar of motel soap. Humphreys transcribed them, suggested a . few cuts and additions, and sent nearly 300 pages north to Manhattan, where her agent, Harriet Wasserman, read the manuscript in a few hours and sold it in a matter of days. "What language! What imagery!" says Wasserman, who certainly should know. She also represents Saul Bellow...
...ceremony, Clinton stared out over the peaceful water, imagining the cauldron of 50 years ago. He bent to touch the sand, perhaps a ritual of consecration for the simple virtues that propelled those young soldiers across such a distant fire zone: beaches are for families and picnics and laughter...
...Nichols and the writers (novelist Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick) are treading a fine high wire; one misstep and off you tumble into self-satire, the modern horror film's omnipresent danger. But by provoking authentic laughter with their satirical thrusts at current corporate styles (Spader is a hilarious model of yuppie unctuousness), they make sure we are amused often and always at the right moments. If Nichols had less skill, we would crack up when the moon is full and Nicholson's stunt double starts leaping around the countryside, but using low light and slow motion, the director displays...