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...idea for Noises occurred to Frayn, 50, a well-known British farceur and satirist, one night in 1970 as he stood in the wings of a London theater watching a performance of a quick-change, arms-flapping farce he had written for Lynn Redgrave and Richard Briers. "It was funnier from behind than in front," recalls Frayn, "and I thought, 'One day I must write a farce from behind...
...that autobiographical funk called Stardust Memories (1980), a fan pleaded with the self-absorbed film director to make funnier movies-"like the old ones." This time Woody Allen generously obliged, in part by junking some of the analysand mannerisms that infected him and his female co-stars over the past few pictures. Danny is the least "Woody Allen" of Allen's screen incarnations. As Tina, Lou's nails-tough mistress with a heart of rhinestone. Mia Farrow is a coarse delight; this is her best work since Rosemary's Baby. Bright as the spangled jacket...
...When I first heard about the guidelines. I thought we were just going to try and be funnier. Now we come up with a really funny show and it gets canned." Rubin added...
Faculty Advisor Thomas Everett said the original program might 'have been funnier, but added that, "at a time when people are watching very closely," it was good policy to avoid what might be interpreted as sexual innuendo...
...published in 1980, lists more than two dozen phrases meaning "to vomit." This is no mistake. Perhaps more than any other group in recent decades, the youth of the 1980s revel in bad taste. For the generation that grew up with Saturday Night Live and Animal House, nothing is funnier than a well told puke joke...