Humor

'I Served the King of England': Czechs and Balances (The New York Sun)

29 Aug 2008

In 1966, the Czechoslovakian filmmaker Jiri Menzel played his part in his country's New Wave with "Closely Watched Trains," his Oscar-winning movie about a hopeless railroad worker during the Nazi occupation who volunteers for a suicide mission. Based on a novel by Bohumil Hrabal, it was in fact a comedy, in accordance with a national strain of black humor that would meet a failed suicide ...

Ricken steps through goal posts of life at installation (Green Bay Press-Gazette)

29 Aug 2008

In the midst of one of the most magnificent Catholic ceremonies likely to happen in Green Bay, Bishop David Ricken flashed the humor that had endeared him to his previous flock in Wyoming.

The Dish: Diary of a mad director (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

28 Aug 2008

In a "Spanish diary" he purportedly kept for the New York Times while filming "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," Woody Allen displays humor seen only intermittently in his recent films. "Shot a torrid love scene today between Scarlett and Javier," he notes.