Word: deadpanned
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...married couple falls out of love--and one spouse gets killed--in each of these dramatized deadpan docufarces, with bad-taste maven John Waters hosting as the "Groom Reaper." The tacky milieu, high emoting and lowlife venality may trick you into thinking you're watching one of those good-bad John Waters movies. Alas, you're just watching John Waters watching a not-so-good TV show. Sorry...
...undergraduate at U.S.C., Ferrell once delivered a deadpan speech to his fraternity brothers urging them to "go gay" to reduce the risk of being accused of date rape and bring them closer together. When he lived in New York City, Ferrell would find the most ordinary painting in a museum and bawl in front of it. While at SNL, he even cultivated an unusual fondness for bombing. "If a sketch bombs, a lot of times you'll see a performer just hit the beats and get out," says McKay, a former head writer on the show. "Will would drag...
...funny, like the idea that arguments over the height of James Brown are the third-leading cause of death in Alabama or that Katie Couric (whose evening news ratings have fallen) signs off with, “Why, God? Why?” The two anchors have honed their deadpan timing to be comparable to the Daily Show’s or Weekend Update’s anchors. The guest experts successfully create characters deep enough to be plausible but nutty enough to be funny. Yet, despite its strengths, I cannot get over the feeling that the show...
...steel light boxes about a foot thick that are lit from within by scores of white fluorescent tubes, so that the pictures glow like a movie screen. Although he's also done some "straight" photography, mainly landscapes, most of Wall's photos are staged. He's made social commentary, deadpan domestic interiors and still-life paradoxes like Staining bench, furniture manufacturer's, Vancouver, a dazzling shot of a densely spattered work space that's both a genuine document of a workplace--O.K., depending on what we mean by genuine--and a fierce photographic equivalent of a Jackson Pollock drip painting...
...Church-the nom de plume of a former Western intelligence official who, in an e-mail interview with TIME, says he has been "in, around, and over (but never below) North Korea many times"-has an excellent eye for detail and a flair for the high art of gumshoe deadpan. "I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned to see who it was," O narrates, before being knocked cold by a security goon. "We'd been trained never to make that mistake; I made it anyway." As a detective, O is as hard-boiled as they come, a barely...