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...This is why Will Ferrell is such a funny guy. He can play funny, stupid, drunk or angry, run around like a maniac and then get a laugh with the slightest flick of an eyebrow. He can be boorish and then deceptively sincere. He can be genuinely sweet and then appallingly offensive. Unlike Adam Sandler or Jim Carrey, Ferrell has more than one note to his comic style - and all the notes are genuine...
Briony is quick to jump from one assumption to another as “evidence” accumulates. Upon reading an obscene draft of a love letter written by Robbie and intended for Cecilia, Briony recasts the family’s trustworthy friend as the perverted “maniac,” and when she chances upon the two lovers in the library, she has the “exhilarated notion” that she has just delivered her sister from a brutal assault...
...quiet and understated, the other of increasingly violent paranoia. Caprice, the cute, funny and loveable waitress with an unfortunate case of low self esteem that results in poor choices of lovers practically walks off the page she seems so real. Equally compelling, Steve the nut, a highly intelligent ego-maniac with deep "anger issues" ("I don't know why, but no one is meaner than a bunch of black teenage girls") will not fail to get a rise out of you. Watching one make the wrong choices is heartbreaking. Watching the other do the same is chilling...
...lets it be choosy in who it books. Last month, for instance, they hosted a sold-out show of current indie darlings Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!. Still, be prepared to sit out a little turbulence. One night last year, a friend and I arrived while some maniac opening band was onstage. Their sound was the aural equivalent of a bad Pollock painting: barely controlled arrhythmic screeching that would have made Ornette Coleman wince. My friend and I were glum; had we wasted our money on this? I can still recommend the club’s booking, though, because...
Most decisions (especially the weighty ones) don’t offer a clearly delineated diagram of right vs. wrong. So don’t get caught in a muddle of over-analysis. I’m not suggesting that you turn into an impulsive maniac, but there should be a happy medium. Indecision can be just as dangerous as rashness...