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directed by John Payson starring Jerry O'Connell playing...
With the help of hundreds of both computer-animated and real roaches--none of whom, unfortunately, were harmed in the making of the film--director John Payson zips us quickly from one six-legged musical number to another. In between, comedy both broad and cynical provides filler of wildly varying quality: both toilet humor (literally: Joe works for a urinal cake company and woos Lily with fertilizer) and toilet humor with a difference (a musical band named for what it sounds like...
...roaches therefore spend their time making often incomprehensible wise-cracks from under any object in Joe's nightmarishly filthy apartment that could be animated: false teeth, toast, lampshades etc. Payson's philosophy seems to have been to keep things moving, literally, at any cost...
...once at Harvard, once at Radcliffe, and our classes became partially co-ordinate (a more dignified word than coeducation) with Harvard. We took notes now amidst a sea of V-12 white-suited sailors and the navy uniformed ROTC, and sometimes they copied what we wrote. I remember Professor Payson Wild commenting on the results of a final exam in international relations: The Radcliffes scored on average 10 points higher, but the Harvards' bluebooks were more interesting to read...
...Payson K. Dartlett, 29, allegedly entered the Wainwright Bank at about 10:15 a.m. and passed the teller a note demanding cash...