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CARNIE (FORMERLY FAT) WILSON AGE: 33 OCCUPATION: Poor man's Ricki Lake BEST PUNCH: Angry at the fat jokes in Shallow Hal, she said, "I had tears running down my face in the theater...It made me feel like I was a big joke...
PETER (FORMERLY FUNNY) FARRELLY AGE: 44 OCCUPATION: Co-director of Shallow Hal BEST PUNCH: "She's dead wrong...it must have hit things for her that we couldn't have foreseen." Plus, Wilson, like the Hal lead character, once busted a chair...
...listened. "Omar doesn't have the same power he had in the past," says Haqiq, the Pashtun commander. "They keep saying he will fight to the end, but we don't think that's true." Across Afghanistan, people deserted the regime as soon as it started losing, exposing its shallow hold on them. "The Taliban showed they were good at enforcing beard lengths," says a Western diplomat, "and that's about it." The first, pivotal defeat of the Taliban, in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, was greased by local Pashtun fed up with taking orders from "these village...
...hilarious throughout. He’ll say anything to get the girl and introduces himself to the audience in a frenetic, hormone-driven shpiel filled with name-dropping and absurd anecdotes. Without surrendering the humor of the role, Erlich manages to hint at the many levels of a seemingly shallow womanizer...
That Dot-Comedy’s plot is shallow and not always terribly interesting is excusable—it adds to the light-hearted tone of the evening and does not stand in the way of the telegraphed punch lines. Less excusable is the mediocre execution of the production’s many musical numbers. The characters (even the iMacs impersonated by actors and prominently featured in the advertisements) are constantly breaking into song and dance. Their zany numbers are littered with puns and intended as the pinnacle of the show’s mockery of the internet world...