Word: mads
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...left] and NATHAN [LANE, right]," who played Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock on Broadway, says the comic. But when it came time to cast escaped Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in the new film, "I thought, Who's manic?" says Brooks. Enter WILL FERRELL, center. "There was something dangerous and mad in his eyes," Brooks explains. If it works, Ferrell may join the gang for Brooks' next version of The Producers. "What do you think we should do?" Brooks asks. "Claymation...
...rugby union and soccer-mad South Africa, Aussie Rules remains an oddity. At the Potchefstroom training session, one school teacher supervising his students laughs when told that Aussie Rules teams have 22 players, 18 of whom are playing at any one time. "What kind of a sport has so many players?" says Robert Noah. "It's like a miracle to us that you can get so many people on the field...
...film delivers exactly what its title promises. The titular “mad black woman” is divorced by her philandering husband, (literally) kicked out of their palatial home, and forced to resume residence with her psychotic grandmother Madea. Just as it seems things can get no worse, they get a little better: an improbably handsome and sensitive factory worker becomes enamored of her and initiates a cautious courtship...
...recent essay “Who is that mad black woman,” Roger Ebert reports that his one-star review of Diary elicited more angry correspondence than any other film he has ever reviewed—including Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Passion of the Christ combined...
...film’s other performances are tender and believable. In particular, Kimberly Elise and Shemar Moore, portraying the “mad black woman” and her blue-collar suitor respectively, really shine. Their nuanced portrayals sell the romance, and Perry’s script wisely sidesteps the manufactured histrionics that mar so many cinematic romances...