Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Francis Veber, the man behind the extraordinary comic feats La Cage Aux Folles and Les Comperes, (both eventually remade in Hollywood as The Birdcage and Father's Day) has crafted another farce: The Dinner Game. But it falls short of Veber's usual promise. Given the unsurpassable hilarity of Les Comperes--a film that amuses even after repeated viewings--The Dinner Game pales in comparison...
...outage, which set off fire alarms and lasted for seven hours, started when a water leak caused a short circuit in the building's power facilities, according to Bill Schaller, a public information officer at the Medical School...
Schaller said Medical School officials still have "not a clue" as to what caused the initial outage, but technicians were able to get the normal power system back online by creating a temporary circuit that bypassed the short circuit...
...been watching for months: the couple stroke each other in front of a mirror while Chris Isaak's perfect "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing" messes with the tone of the moment. Though Kidman and Cruise don't have sex on-screen (what a tease!), the short scene is wonderful because it is so loaded. Combine Kidman's glances into the mirror, her height advantage over Cruise, Isaak's strange lyrics (the verse Kubrick chooses is an interesting one) and the couple's blatant awkwardness, and you have a classic piece of cinema in 90 seconds...
...next day I met elevator boy--I'll call him E. for short--at his place of work. E. was answering phones while his co-worker took a bathroom break, so I took a seat in the reception area. Just as the pleather seats were starting to itch my pantyhose, the other intern returned. Catching me looking impatient, she asked if I'd been helped, and, in the same breath asked E. when the "lunch chick" was going to arrive...