The sad yet bitterly funny opening chapters are a beautifully taut portrait of a man at the end of his tether.
It was a perfect chess event to watch: a nice mixture of different creative efforts from brilliant and funny opening ideas to remarkable endgame escapes.
He's funny, open, self-effacing and thoroughly likeable.
"She was a lovely, funny, open character, she was very easy to get on with.
She was funny, open, unpretentious, pretty, and liked by everyone who met her.
Last year I interviewed his mother, and she's great - funny, open, interesting, interested - and we've occasionally kept in touch since.
Dalebroux normally had a funny, open personality, Carroll said, but he sometimes withdrew, pushing away the people who cared about him.
He's trying to do an actual talk show, in which an eclectic group of people — celebrities, yes, but also candidates and other politicos, activists and entrepreneurs — are engaged in smart, funny, open-ended, informed and occasionally emotional dialogue.
Judd Apatow's extraordinary, audacious "Funny People" opens in France tomorrow, under the title "Funny People"; in Le Monde, Thomas Sotinel adds little to what most American critics had to say: he doesn't get it either.
