Word: lowbrow
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...real trick to their belovedness is that Joel and Ethan Coen go highbrow on lowbrow: opera parody mixes with stoner humor in The Big Lebowski, a cow explodes in the middle of a Depression-era adaptation of The Odyssey in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and quips about Renaissance music are juxtaposed with irritable-bowel syndrome in their latest, The Ladykillers, which opens this Friday. "We're not embarrassed to put in the cheapest gags if they make us laugh," says Joel, 49. "On the other hand, if something goes over somebody's head, we don't care...
...crop of contenders that has sprung up in the wake of Martha's mess is staggering. As well as "Down Under Martha" (Hay), there's "lowbrow Martha" (Semi-Homemade's Sandra Lee), "pioneer Martha" (MaryJane Butters of Moscow, Idaho), "Gen X Martha" (Katie Brown) and, following the launch of her Kmart clothing and home collection, Thalia Sodi, who will debut a magazine this month that will crown her "Latina Martha." There's even a host of "anti-Marthas," including Dan Ho, whose Rescue magazine is pitched to those in "Martha recovery." While they all tout their own particular niche, what...
...this golden piece of programming was: “Wow, Fox has stooped to a new low.” But for once, Fox didn’t mastermind this bizarre new program. (In my defense, however, this happened after reading that the network’s notoriously lowbrow line-up is to include a new show called “My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé.”) This time, the perpetrator is a premium-cable network with an obvious conflict of interests...
...jarring to see Eric Tsang angry. The jovial actor, whose ubiquity in Hong Kong films?he's been in nearly 150?has made him a fixture on cable systems throughout Asia, is synonymous with lowbrow high jinks and slapstick physicality. Yet here he is, feet planted defiantly on a Kowloon street, ignoring an imprecating photographer who is losing a race with the setting sun to snap a natural-light portrait. Tsang's full-moon of a face, which is seen onscreen usually deployed in an overwrought double take or wide-eyed surprise, is now reddening as he barks in Cantonese...
Just kidding. Actually, Gilman’s letter—which made the devastating point that a student opponent of segregated dining halls was a lowbrow “Quincy House resident”—didn’t even raise eyebrows. Adams House continues to enforce the members-only policy at its opulent dining hall...