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...southern Alaska. The other is Graham Dorrington, a London University aeronautical engineer, who wants to build and fly a hot air balloon - not a behemoth like the Hindenburg, but a small airship called The White Diamond. ?We can realize our dreams!? says this excitable scientist, who often seems near laughter or tears. ?Let?s go fly!? Now he has come to the wilds of Guyana in hopes of launching his dream...
...Baumbach?s sympathy for the all-too-human spectacle of lust pratfalling over itself makes the film as funny as it is painful. The only appropriate response to this lacerating brood - whose troubles make the Saraband family, by comparison, seem like the Andersons from Father Knows Best - is the laughter of shock and compassion...
...Society.” At the start, actors were able to maintain their composure, but, as the show progressed, they were hard pressed to hold back the giggles. Struggling to turn the pages in their scripts while holding props, actors continued to pour out jumbled lines, barely audible through laughter. Entering and exiting the “stage” was a challenge in itself, occurring whenever the actors could juggle their props and scripts long enough to read the cue, or when one of the organizers barked an order from offstage: “Exit Hamlet...
...she’s funny. (She also hiccups with laughter at her own jokes.) She’s kind. She’s loyal. She has an uncanny ability to quote from “Sex and the City,” polishes even the dirtiest FTMs to a shine, and shotguns a beer faster than you can blink. And she does it all while smiling a snarl, exclaiming infectious nonsense (“Got To!”), and recalling her many enviously silly escapades. She’s basically everything FM wants to be, wrapped...
...You’re not going to be an Army recruiter, are you?” Scalia quipped, drawing laughter from the courtroom...