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...governor's daughter (Kiera Knightly) turned out to be representatives of the undead, which involved her swain (Orlando Bloom) and Jack with a lot of special-effects figures (they turned into skeletons when night fell). This was, I thought, a drag, but it was rendered tolerable by the wit and originality of Depp's performance. This time, the plot device is quite similar: The eponymous chest contains something that will return Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), king of the underseas underworld and, yes, captain of the The Flying Dutchman, no less, to the land of the fully living...
...blessing bestowed on the original production, which the sequel is sort of stuck with. He was so good, doing, as he confessed, his imitation of the piratical Keith Richards, that he grabbed the reviews that brought in, as an unexpected increment, a crowd of grown-ups looking for some wit in an unlikely place - the multiplexes in summertime. This new film lends a certain credence to that supposition. It is as endless (at two and a half hours) as the Peter Jackson King Kong, and like that misbegotten film it is intended for the last mass audience left...
...artist as minotaur or faun; the savage beauty of the bullfight. The same subject is painted over and over, and because Picasso dated his works precisely, the astonished visitor understands that half a wall of work is the output of just one day. There is lyrical beauty, puzzling abstraction, wit and color; and occasionally a startlingly realistic pencil portrait of Maar as a reminder of his consummate skills as a draughtsman...
...from John, Paul, George and Ringo in the '60s.) Sometimes the chatter is used to introduce a song. We hear John's voice - "The Birds. A Hitchcock movie" - and hear the guitar intro to "Blackbird." At other times the bavardage is there just to capture the group's breezy wit. George asks whether his guitar is out of tune (it is), and John tosses out an impromptu verse: "I suddenly discovered that I was out of tune,/ But I kept on playin', 'cause I'm no goon...
...Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—will deliver the female Ivy Oration, the more humorous of the senior speeches, at Class Day exercises today. It’s clear that Widdicombe’s wit has already won over her friends. “She makes jokes that you can repeat to 20 different people out of context and everybody will still laugh,” says Widdicombe’s blockmate, Alexa H. Hirschfeld ’06. “She?...