MY COLLEAGUE over at Johnson raises an amusing point on the nature of film titles in foreign languages one that lends itself quite readily to some lazy, armchair anthropology (ie, dinner-party trivia):Puns, to be fair, are usually impossible to translate faithfully.
In true Spurlock fashion, it's a very amusing point.
The principal, and amusing, central point of his monologue, given Mr. Sondheim's longtime personal and professional association with Bernstein, is that Lenny should have canned all his highfalutin' classical pretensions and stuck to popular love songs.
This amusing vignette points ahead to the famous image of the American girl in Italy, with its darker tone.
What is even more striking (or amusing) depending on your point of view, is the fact that rather than looking inward to find the root of such problems, many members of the party establishment seem to be looking for scapegoats.
This amusing coming-of-age memoir is not Oprah bait.
To provoke one of these responses — vegetarianism or a defiant meat eating — may be the point of this odd, amusing film.
To be fair, neither originality nor efficient storytelling is really the point of this sloppy, sometimes amusing exercise.
And that perspective is the main selling point of a show that has amusing touches, but is relentlessly arch and tongue in cheek in a way that seemed fresh when "Desperate Housewives" began in 2004, but now is less so.
But remember that I did the record with Kanye, and he has a very specific point of view about sexuality, which I find amusing.
