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The Importance of Leaving Ernest
Wall Street Journal
a figure Clive Owen portrays with panache, though a kind overburdened with relentless irony. Things improve once we get past the film's early scenes, which show a Hemingway wild-eyed, cigar in mouth, looking unnervingly like Groucho Marx.

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Chortle
Yianni Agisilaou files a dispatch from the LA comedy scene
Chortle
The irony, of course, being that comedy predominantly works best when the tension resides in the audience and the calm, confident authority sits with the performer. Flappers was a good name for the club, because flapping is exactly what each act is ...


 
Upstart New York opera company puts the casa back in “Don Pasquale”
The Classical Review
Donizetti's Don Pasquale offers a garden scene toward the end of Act III that sets the sweet simplicity of Ernesto's serenade and his subsequent duet with Norina inside a halo of dramatic irony. The audience, after all, knows that Pasquale and ...


 
New York Times
'Hick,' Directed by Derick Martini
New York Times
And Glenda and Eddie's climactic scene is flat-out ridiculous. Ms. Portes's script strains credulity, and it's not helped by Mr. Martini, who can't find the right tone. Patsy Cline's “Sweet Dreams” for a (thankfully off-screen) rape scene? Forced irony ...

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Living Wright: Trials of air travel test limits of patience, sanity
Tulsa World
By JASON ASHLEY WRIGHT World Scene Writer I've apparently seen it enough times to quote it, preferably on random occasions. Like when someone asks how I like my coffee, I can quote the little girl from the start of the movie saying, "Strong and black ...


 
San Antonio Express (blog)
Thunder have keepsake in Fisher
San Antonio Express (blog)
In a twist of irony, Derek Fisher (center) and the Thunder got past the team that traded him, the Lakers. Jae C. Hong / Associated Press By Mike Monroe OKLAHOMA CITY — It is a moment frozen in Spurs playoff infamy, defined by a fraction of a second ...


 
Remembering Zac—A Mother's Living Memorial to her Slain Son, Part 1
Patch.com
And the last photo ever taken of him, at the crime scene of the shooting, with his body splayed out, his arms were up and out, like angel wings. “He was someone people could relate to,” Carol says. “He had a very good nature.” She sighs.

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