Humor

Kid watch: An advisory for parents on current DVDs (San Francisco Chronicle)

16 May 2008

TitleWhat it's aboutAdvisory RATED PG Alvin and the ChipmunksIn this live-action movie, the animated chipmunks and their human friend Dave fight efforts to commercialize their music. Some rude humor and songs with sexually suggestive lyrics.Bee MovieA...

PLUMP WISDOM (New York Post)

16 May 2008

NOW svelte Star Jones has a sense of humor about her plumper, former self. Jones recently hosted a taping of "The Bad Girls Club" reunion special, in which one bad girl accused another of being "a cheeseburger away from being obese." "A huge fight ensued, bodyguards had to come onstage, and Star had overheard the comment," said an insider. "When they returned from a commercial, Star joked, 'If I ...

Hookups, hang-ups, and humor (Boston Globe)

16 May 2008

It's a neat trick that a movie acutely aware of gay stereotypes ends up getting its best material by trading on precisely those. Indie writer-director Casper Andreas's same-sex romantic comedy "A Four Letter Word" spotlights Luke (co-writer Jesse Archer), a flamboyant, blond-streaked New York party boy even fonder of hookups than of clothes tricked out with a spangly Laverne DeFazio ...