Word: songfulness
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...while, comedy spews out of him in extemporized, perfectly paced paragraphs. Here, for instance, is Ferrell's description of his character in Semi-Pro: "I'm Jackie Moon, owner-coach-player of the Flint Tropics, but I'm also a one-hit-wonder guy. I have a hit song called Love Me Sexy that I sing at every home game. Then I do the player introductions after I sing my song. Then I introduce myself and take my cape...
Ferrell calls these improvised moments "the times when I feel like I do have some sort of skill," and his peers marvel at the ease with which he carries them off. "When he did the song at the Oscars with Jack Black and John C. Reilly," says Apatow, "he had people over at his house. He didn't even tell them where he was going. He just slipped out and said, 'Oh, I gotta go do this thing.'" "Well, that is true," says Ferrell, "but I literally live up the hill from the Kodak Theater, so it was just clocking...
...song titles reveal a pattern: “Rehab,” “You Know I’m No Good,” “Love Is A Losing Game,” “Tears Dry On Their Own,” among others, all draw attention to a history of depression, addiction, and pessimism. In her heyday (and probably still, since she refuses to go to rehab), Winehouse notoriously abused drugs and alcohol and suffered from major emotional problems and eating disorders. Her life, and thus her album, is a whole...
...middle-aged mother working night shifts at a seedy club in order to support her daughter. Zbanic believes that simplicity will triumph. Indeed, she does not preach through her characters, but rather lets the message float to the surface by the end of the film, aided by a bemoaning song about Sarajevo. The film focuses on the relationship of the single mother and daughter: Esma needs to pay Sara’s imminent school trip fees—a whopping sum of 200 euros—and we see her become increasingly more embarrassed as she asks each...
...dead serious. There is absolutely no sarcasm here. I really feel this strongly about the [T-shirt design] and the implications of this debate for our house’s relationship with other houses.” The particular design in question featured a slightly altered line from a song by the Wu-Tang Clan, a popular rap group: “Winthrop ain’t nothing to fuck with.” While hardly lyrical genius, the design has some merits: It doesn’t feature a penis, or penis-shaped object. In several houses, previous designs...