#cal

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable. ↗

— James Wolcott

#arrived #buster #carrey #clowns #comedy

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#capable #down #every #favorite #fraction

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#end #everybody #how #integrated #know

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#behind #grim #like #locals #movie

The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#blocs #city #europe #ever #feature

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#anyone #best #chooses #does #experience

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#communicate #everything #first #first of all #joy

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#really #reporters #researchers #television

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#economic #greater #i #i believe #increasingly

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#go #i #into #leave #led