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...Moore?s Oscar-winning ?Bowling for Columbine? established the agit-doc tone, which mixes sober condemnation with japish wit. The approach was part ?Democracy Now? (Amy Goodman?s low-rent, high-IQ newscast on radio and TV), part ?The Daily Show,? which since 9/11 has become the Left?s CNN. Jon Stewart has made the President is an easy figure of fun. But the agit-docs aimed to nail Dubya for crimes graver than speaking English as a second language. They viewed Bush and his closest advisors as Pirates of the Constitution, exploiting the national trauma over 9/11 to pursue...
...traditional movie would have these princesses of the Third World teach the rich Anglos lessons in humanity as John and Flor join hearts across the border. Oh, that happens here, with dollops of the rueful, self-aware wit that is Brooks' unique gift; nobody else writes jokes with such acute ethical shading. But there's a tarantula on the angel-food cake: John's manic wife Deb (Téa Leoni). Deb is Brooks' first real villain, a character everyone in the film can reject. Leoni, investing an awful energy in her role, puts the pang in Spanglish and throws...
...20th century. Whenever the world unfolded in some uncanny arrangement, as it did in Madrid, 1933, left, he was at the ready. He was unafraid of the most ordinary moments of life-- as in Sunday on the Banks of the River Marne, 1938, above--which he approached with wit and warmth...
...really two great photographers. One was the urbane fashionista whose pictures, like Dovima with Elephants, had a new kind of airborne energy and wit. The other was the unsparing portraitist, whose pictures, like Ronald Fischer, Beekeeper, Davis, California, May 9, 1981, said life is an acute condition
...deal with our unpredictable production nights and inevitable crises. Lucky for us, Dave has proved to be a perfect fit for the magazine. Not only does he barely blink an eye when we frantically run around campus for a midnight cover shoot, he also has the intelligence, wit and attitude that FM loves. From his hilarious endpapers with a fiction writer’s flow to his near-perfect proofing track record (with a few, amusing-in-retrospect exceptions) and, above all, his desire to bond with us over Amstel Light or an episode of the Daily Show, Dave...