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...FILM | Roy Andersson
Renowned primarily for his ingenious television commercials, Swedish director Roy Andersson, former student of Ingmar Bergman, has also produced celebrated films. The most recent of these, Songs from the Second Floor, won the Prix du Jury of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Described as “a searing meditation on millennial decadence” by the Harvard Film Archive, the film is composed of 45 surreal, darkly comedic vignettes that highlight the absurdity of human existence against a dreary European backdrop. As for Andersson’s other films, catch A Swedish Love Story on Wednesday, October...
...DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, necktie-tugging, bug-eyed U.S. comedian known for his self-deprecating one-liners and his catch phrase, "I don't get no respect"; in Los Angeles. After struggling as a young stand-up comic under the name Jack Roy, he quit show business and sold aluminum siding for 12 years. But in 1967, he returned with a new stage name and earned his first big break on The Ed Sullivan Show. Dangerfield's hard-luck shtick made him a TV staple in the '70s and '80s, and he starred in the slapstick screen comedies Caddyshack...
...counted Nushu among the 50% of the world's 6,000 languages facing extinction. DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, stand-up comic whose old-fashioned style of one-liners thrived in an era of hip young satirists; in Los Angeles. After struggling as a comic, using the stage name Jack Roy, he left the business for 12 years and sold aluminum siding. But he made a comeback in his 40s, with a new name and a new catchphrase: "I don't get no respect." An energetic joke writer - he would sometimes jot them down on cardboard from his laundered shirts...
...knew that we were going to stir the pot, but I had no idea we'd be this successful," says retired Rear Admiral Roy Hoffmann, Kerry's former commander and founder of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT). By last Friday the group said its website alone had raised $2.5 million from 37,183 donors--money Hoffmann says he plans to use to pummel Kerry with ads right up to Election Day. Kerry campaign officials say their focus groups suggest a backlash is building, one they hope will pick up if they can link President Bush to SBVT...