Word: wit
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...room to another and try not to let me down." His long life's journey is dazzling and his pen nimble. And he is unhesitatingly honest in a treasurable series of compact character descriptions. Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, claimed to have written most of the legendary wit's best lines: "Of course Douglas had quite lost his looks and I thought that must have been a great tragedy for him," writes Gielgud. Marlon Brando, filming Julius Caesar in 1952, is "a funny, intense, egocentric boy of 27, with a flat nose and bullet head ? he has very...
Frustratingly, the film’s dialogue lacks the signature themes that define Mamet’s best work. Gone are the crackling wit of State and Main, the sublime lessons in human nature of Glengarry Glen Ross, and the warped intelligence of The Spanish Prisoner. Also missing, though far less missed, is Rebecca Pigeon, Mamet’s wife and a fixture of his films, who often stands out as the worst element of any ensemble...
...Very Conservative” among us, but at least they are honest. Fair, balanced and unafraid, these brave souls who actually label themselves as Rightists in this liberal citadel are likely self-proclaimed “Hipublicans” who allegedly use their acerbic and edgy wit to poke fun whenever liberalism runs amok. Granted, there are some posers in this camp as well, but most of them are of the ironic liberal variety that thinks it’s funny to label themselves very conservative when in fact they are the opposite. The rest are flag-waving, Bible-thumping...
...capacity, he is teaching Afro-American Studies 183, “The African-American Experience in Film: 1930-1970” and Visual and Environmental Studies 173x, “American Film Criticism.” What makes this guy so special? Well, besides his quick and ready wit and encyclopedic understanding of the media world, Mitchell is currently one of the three head movie critics for The New York Times and is the entertainment critic of NPR’s “Morning Edition with Scott Simon.” Mitchell’s resume also includes...
...damn in the dialogue, plenty of butt comedy, and mermaids out of Vargas, with large breasts and pert nipples. The films reveal what kind of cartoons the Warner Bros. guys would have made if the Hollywood censor had been a bit more lenient. They also display the Geisel wit in more luxuriant fester. Ted had written a grown-up children's book called "The Seven Lady Godivas" in 1940. Much later, he created, for his own pleasure, Beardsley-like art of a slightly bawdy nature (a woman with a long-necked cat at her pubis - a pussy). SNAFU gave...