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...ages. A delicious, brilliantly crafted example of how a movie can entertain, move and impress without sacrificing wit and intelligence. In a play within a play, Joe Fiennes plays Shakespeare as an ill-fated Romeo trying to woo his upper-class Juliet (Gwyneth Paltrow). What prevents this familiar tale from degenerating into cliche is its self-awareness--it's a fulfilling romance and a sharp comedy. And a luminous Paltrow glowingly convinces why she is worthy of the greatest mind of all time...
...extended exercise in how long one's tolerance will hold out before snapping, an exercise everywhere shot through with impatience and bitterness. And as the league continues to look more and more like daytime drama, the expectations it has for its fans approach indolence and a wit slower than a Buck Williams drive...
...turn of the millennium, but this year as every year, students will try to outwit their teaching fellows and professors, graders will appreciate wit and originality in a huge stack of bluebooks and, by February, the marks will be entered and the academic cycle will begin anew. Indeed, some things never change...
...genius plotting world domination); and the voice of reason is Brian, the family's talking dog. The early plots are standard-issue situation comedy (Dad gets laid off, Mom mounts a chaotic production of The King and I), but in the pilot script, at least, MacFarlane's pell-mell wit recalls The Simpsons' fevered early-'90s creative peak. Punch lines spill out furiously as the show spirals into multilayered flashbacks and inventive fantasies (when Peter wonders whether to lie to his wife, for instance, the angel and the devil that duel cunningly over his shoulders turn out to have angels...
This collection of random musings from the monologist-actress and chic wit again makes the case that Bernhard's brand of observational humor is like no one else's. In her new work, Bernhard draws on her boundless imagination to pay homage to her housepainter, Jewish mysticism and Brenda Vaccaro while conjuring up ad campaigns for Mother Teresa-inspired day wear. Do we mind that Bernhard's reflections can be a bit too solipsistic, a bit over the top? Nope...