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Awful. Horrible. These are my reactions. But laughter--that's really the key. Everyone that I have shown this forwarded e-mail to has laughed, and then commented on how awful it was. Sure, maybe it is funny. But humor is not always good. Just what is it that is so funny? Jokes certainly spring up quickly, and are usually tasteless, but this joke is far from just that, for it clearly illustrates the divide between the haves and have-nots...
Bodrov is best known for his comedies, including "Trouble Maker," "The Beloved Woman of Mechanic Garvrilov" and "Very Important Person" and, despite their precarious predicament, laughter pervades the captives' existence. Sasha, who joined the army because he "was stupid, liked guns, and needed money," is an experienced and somewhat psychotic soldier who shoots rounds in open fields and yells a lot. He is a story-teller, a liar and a lush, and his influence on Vania leads to drunken dances, exercise routines to "Let My People Go" and a rather vocal victory for Vania in the town's fixed wrestling...
...laughter slowly dies when Vania's mother comes to rescue her only son and the full reality of life and death are slowly realized. As a school teacher in Russia, she reads Vania's letters to her students, letters that are never long enough to satisfy her. When she receives a letter from the captive Vania asking for help, she leaves her life behind and enters the danger of Chechnya to save...
...times have changed. While theatergoers on this side of the Atlantic still lament that Broadway is overdependent on British imports, London seems to be infatuated with Americans. Transplants from Broadway like Grease, Smokey Joe's Cafe and Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor are side by side on the West End with Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganzas. The Royal National Theatre has just revived Richard Eyre's landmark 1982 production of Guys and Dolls, whose success inspired a string of British revivals of classic American musicals. Even so unfashionable, and quintessentially American, a pop figure as Al Jolson...
...however, to confuse real and imagined identities, for Cosby had modeled his television family on his own: a brilliantly accomplished wife, four assertive daughters and one diffident but charming son. The Huxtables were warm, cuddly, comfortable, now and then confronted with tough problems that eventually dissolved in peals of laughter. Last week the images of Ennis Cosby dead in L.A. melded myth and reality. The only son of America's premier family had been shot, and the father of a generation of TV viewers was in shock and mourning. The sitcom is over. The laughter has ended. Welcome...