Word: wit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Black Panther and a college English professor, West wasn't the first to bring a buppie sensibility to hip-hop, but he infused Jesus Walks, All Falls Down and Never Let Me Down (which featured a tremendous guest verse from his mentor and record-company president, Jay-Z) with wit, intelligence and, most of all, complexity...
...Harold strives to live his life to the fullest and, of course, bag the girl of his dreams (Maggie Gyllenhaal) along the way. “Stranger Than Fiction” is screenwriter Zach Helm’s first movie, and it shows. Built on quirky narration, sitcom level wit, and self-conscious onscreen visuals, it’s a workmanlike indie-comedy for a mainstream audience.With the success of low-scale Charlie Kaufman meta-films (“Adaptation” comes to mind throughout the movie), it was only a matter of time until someone tried to squeeze...
...That notion must have drifted over to Bristol. After two features and dozen of shorts whose wit and grace proved that stop-motion deserved to survive in the digital era, some of the Aardmanites agreed to go to California and make a computer-generated feature with the company's American partner, DreamWorks. (Not Park; he stayed home...
...learned that Borden had opened a landscaping business in college, captained an NCAA-championship lacrosse team and was deeply interested in land development and conservation. They drafted a marketing plan around five qualities: a passion for commercial real estate, strong business experience, leadership abilities, organizational skills and a sparkling wit when he isn't nervous. In interviews, Borden hammered away at those key points and, after meeting with about eight companies, landed a job that he loves in a commercial real estate firm...
...Mike (Rory Kulz ’08), a passerby stranded by fog and a van crash, who rapidly joins in the fray. The action starts at a believable pitch and rapidly spirals into exaggeration and caricature. For the most part, this works, as it is delivered with an acid wit and cynicism that meshes nicely with the characters’ disintegration, giving the play something of a train-wreck appeal of watching them dig themselves deeper and deeper into an emotional pit. All of the actors (save Steinemann, who maintains a glacial calm throughout) go off the deep end with...