Word: weirdness
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...creating their rockumentary, the Weavers have taken verbatim the testimonies of Elvis fans, theorists, and historians, and put them in the mouths of the Weavers puppets and occasional live action players. The results are often hysterical, occasionally serious, and always a little weird...
...time Oscar winner (On the Waterfront, The Godfather) partly dedicated the book to "my children, who brought me up," yet he barely mentions his 11 (at least) offspring by his three wives and numerous lovers. Christian, 36, once said of his dysfunctional clan, "My family's so weird and spaced out ... I'd sit down at the table with all these strange people and say, 'Who are you?'" Brando alternately spoiled, ignored and bullied his children; as even he tearfully admitted at Christian's sentencing, "I think perhaps I failed as a father...
...impress Nam Pham, then a college freshman. Every night during that last week of April, he would climb to the roof of his family's house in a Saigon suburb and watch the flashes of bombs and gunfire coming ever closer. Says Pham: "It gave me kind of a weird feeling, watching something you love so much lost a little bit every...
...spells his name weird: My great grandfather spelled it that way. But no one outside my family knows that, so it's caused a lot of confusion regarding my identity. Like when I wrote to Yeshiva University, an all-male school, asking for an application, they instead sent me an application for the Stern College for women. I sent them back a letter saying that "while I certainly wouldn't mind going to Stern, or at the very least living in their all-girl dorms, I thought you should know that I'm a male...
...mime and Zed's former college roommate, is the center of two of the play's most absurb and amusing moments: a scene from a play in which he plays a door and the scene in which he testifies for the prosecution. There isn't anything quite as wonderfully weird as non sequitur mime...