Jennifer Tilly is miscast as the sexually cunning shopgirl, but Jennifer Coolidge and Kristen Johnston are very funny as two specimens of refined vulgarity, Park Avenue-style (2 30).
Moynihan was an unusual specimen — funny, intellectual, eccentric.
DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EYES (Ballantine, $22.95) opens with a raucously funny scene in which Darryl's sister, an ill-mannered specimen of black bourgeois hauteur, rudely insults his future mother-in-law for serving grape Kool-Aid.
By Elisabeth Biondi January 13 , 2011Whenever I'm on trip or at a museum, I look for postcards to take home: not the standard color tourist specimen, but the black-and-white beauties or the quirky, funny ones.
Whenever I'm on trip or at a museum, I look for postcards to take home: not the standard color tourist specimen, but the black-and-white beauties or the quirky, funny ones.
Instead of showing her pain in a naked way, and trying to earn viewers' sympathy for the "real" Kirstie Alley, she shows us the funny side of desperation and of being written about as though she were a mutant lab specimen.
Theres a wickedly funny scene symbolising this invasion of the genteel body when a quack-doctor examining Lady Montague "takes a specimen of her bowels with a long-handled silver spoon normally used to serve truffles".
"He's funny, funny, funny".
