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...enjoyable to watch. Hearing the characters in “Mutual Appreciation” discuss death by “ass cancer” or watching Alan (indie rocker Justin A. Rice ’99 of the band Bishop Allen) play a small yet immeasurably passionate show provoke laughter without needing intellectualization...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Unheard Voice of a Confused Generation | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

...talked about movies forever, so getting moviemaking down to shorthand while we were working was a kick. I've actually known all these fellas a while--though we've rarely talked about anything but work. And we like one another too. Sarcasm is better than that answer, incidentally. [Laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gang's All Here | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

DAMON: If Titanic is on, I cannot turn it off. [Much laughter. DiCaprio nods and smiles wryly.] I say that only half- joking. There are just those movies--GoodFellas is like that for me. You stop what you're doing, and you can't turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gang's All Here | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...think, at that moment that my smug - oh, all right, liberal-minded - chuckles began to gag in my throat. Although other viewers of this film may find their laughter dying earlier, possibly when a home-schooled child is being instructed the earth is just 6,000 years old and that its warming is, like evolution, a myth perpetrated on the faithful by mad science. Or when Harry Potter and the gang at Hogwarts are talked about as the devil's disciple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of Desecrated Childhood | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...OPINIONS, the Cornell Daily Sun berates New York gubernatorial candidate John Faso for accusing his opponent, Eliot Spitzer, of trying to "force gay marriage down the throats of many New Yorkers" at the debate in Ithaca on Tuesday night: "Despite raucous laughter from the audience, Faso appeared unaware of the double entendre." At the Daily Pennsylvanian, a columnist thinks that people often confuse Penn for a state school because of its name: "Not only can a state school name save us from scornful jealousy, it can also inject us with a healthy dose of humility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Infusion: Two Campaigns Kick Off, but Not at Harvard | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

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