Chevalier

An opinionated curmudgeon (YOMV) in Dallas, Texas, blogging primarily about "pay for play," P4P

Archive for July 8th, 2009

Exclusive arrangements

Posted by Chevalier on July 8, 2009

Recently I read a thread over on ASPD about exclusive arrangements.  I’m not sure I learned a lot from the thread, but it got me thinking about the difference between a “regular/favorite” and something more “exclusive.”

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Humor

Posted by Chevalier on July 8, 2009

I’m not particularly funny myself, but I love humor — at least, other than the teen raunch variety.  That certainly extends to broad, slapstick humor – The Producers, the 1968 original rather than the remake, is one of my all time favorite movies and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World! and Foul Play are others, not to mention the Harry Chapin song 30,000 Pounds of Bananas.  I’ve even been known to enjoy the occasional shaggy dog story that makes everyone else groan.

But my favorites in humor tend toward the clever and witty end of the spectrum.  Woody Allen movies – Bananas, particularly the scenes with Howard Cosell, and Love and Death are his best, IMO.  The occasional Neil Simon — I wish The Cheap Detective played on cable more frequently (although now it’s hard to repress the laughter when I watch Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, or To Have and Have Not).  And my favorite part of Airplane! was the scene on the beach:

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