Word: slapstick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cinema: New jock city: a recent crop of movies reduces the glory of sport to insipid, inspirational slapstick...
...movie handles this paradox with comfortable predictability. Not only does the story tap into the archetypal American dream, it draws its script exclusively from time-honored traditions of red-blooded American slapstick jokes, formulaic characters, and racial stereotypes. Everything is familiar and expected, kind of like an old armchair with beer stains that has been sitting in the family basement forever--not particularly attractive or inviting, but no one ever bothers to move it to the junk heap...
...remains as enigmatic a performer as anyone on the folk circuit today, and since his quirky humor is not captured on his albums, local Edwards fans eagerly anticipate his shows for a chance to catch his act. The older crowd at Saunders loved his attempts at self-depracating slapstick--Edward's got the biggest laughs of the night when he parodied the music his children listen to with a mildly pornographic rap that he accompanied by humping...
...Failing to heed the advice of an elderly monk, Mei Yang leaves Yuk Heung in order to pursue a life of ordered womanizing. A pitiful Don Juan with a beleaguered Leporello, Mei Yang discovers that he is, comment dit-on, unequipped for the task. In a riotously slapstick scene, he submits to an operation in which a horse's member replaces his inadequate...
...season when most regional theaters abandon creative integrity for a gold-digging, anodyne version of A Christmas Carol replete with chestnuts (in both senses) but not a lot of consciousness raising, the adaptation now playing at Washington's Arena Stage is a welcome alternative. Much of it is slapstick, too many of its gags come from easy TV references, and its worn-on-the-sleeve liberalism can play fast and loose with facts: Scrooge is condemned for not ponying up a ludicrously understated "few dollars a week" to provide health insurance for his secretary Cratchit and her jobless husband...