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...kind of watershed in British movie comedy. Like the novel, it is an episodic affair, with some scenes working and others missing the mark (Southern himself disliked an amusing auction sequence written by and featuring a young John Cleese). Unlike the aforementioned psychedelic comedies, the cameos here produce intentional laughter. Laurence Harvey, Christopher Lee, Yul Brynner, and Raquel Welch (as "the Priestess of the Whip") all seem to having a hell of a good time - generally a dangerous sign for a comedy ("Yellowbeard," anyone?); here, however, the audience...
...proud (and fearless) entrance in pajamas as the ingénue in Noel Coward’s Present Laughter. My vampy goth get-up as a witch in the Leverett House production of Dark of the Moon...
...proud (and fearless) entrance in pajamas as the ingénue in Noel Coward’s Present Laughter. My vampy goth get-up as a witch in the Leverett House production of Dark of the Moon...
...Like all good populists, Tanaka keeps campaigning, performing in his glass cage and pressing the flesh with fans. In March, more than 800 people came out to Takato, a town in the Japan Alps of 7,300, to see him. "They say I'm a dictator," he said, drawing laughter and applause from the adoring crowd, which listened for three hours as he railed against the prefectural legislators, the $13 million of debt the Nagano government has piled up, the dam projects and his attempts to hire more teachers and provide more services for the handicapped. Then he told...
...announces to the children that the mysterious Snicket couldn't make it, and that he has been sent in Snicket's place. He also tells the young attendees that the books are terrible and that they shouldn't be reading them. Naturally, this subversive behavior sets off gales of laughter in the junior set. "Slowly, the children usually figure out that I'm somebody pretending to be somebody pretending to be somebody," says Handler, who also plays a mean accordion for them...