Word: witting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rugged” Rudgate (Aaron Stanford, “X-Men: The Last Stand”) and his notorious life of crime. Initially, Rugged’s attempts at law-breaking are so pathetic that the only person who thinks he’s cool is his half-wit sidekick, Lagrand (Paul Schneider, “All the Real Girls”). Through twists of fate and macabre miscommunication, however, Rugged bumbles into a status upgrade from town peon to local legend and “cop killer” by the end of the film. “Live...
...single mom (Penlope Cruz, above left) hears rumors that her dead mother (Carmen Maura) is haunting their hometown. This unlocks closets full of family secrets and director Pedro Almodvar's unique mix of earthy wit and fire. So maybe he's not working at quite the apogee of emotion and cinematic daring of his All About My Mother and Talk to Her. That makes Volver only about the sixth best film of the past decade...
...readers left or right. Rather, the human fallout of the Knesset's political posturing is an incessant background hum. In a way that sneaks up on them, several of the book's characters have their lives eaten away by their army experiences. The deadbeat heroes elicit a dead-pan wit. "He had no future," Keret writes of one of his leading men. "He didn't even have a near present...
...played a character, the Tramp, constantly beset by social affront. But his natural wit and class allowed him to rise above the indignity. In The Gold Rush, hunger forces him to eat his own shoe, which he consumes as if he were the most fastidious gourmet...
...round me / because I’m a flirt”) never seems to lose its sugar-coated luster. If R. Kelly can use his incontestable vocal chops to forever change how you look at closets, then you better believe that “freakin’ wit honeys like I supposed to” is a walk in the park...