They have an irresponsible, megalomaniac press lord, Rupert Murdoch, who seeks to monopolize public opinion and force-feed witless TV into millions of households.
The Interview took a reported $15m £9.8mm) in online sales in its first week, after alleged North Korean attempts to get it pulled from cinemas transformed it from a witless farce into an expression of free speech.
In between, Atwood's interwoven, partly autobiographical short stories move slowly from youth to death: in one, a young girl organises her mother, worries about appearances and scares her sister witless; in another, a young woman drifts into the arms of a vaguely unsuitable man; in a third, a father tells his daughter stories about a wilderness trip that went wrong.
4min 30Slatslaunchesnches a witless, unnecessary segue into modeling shots of Lanning and Perry, both of whom look like they want to either die or strangle Slats.
This amateurish, terribly acted piffle, which devolves from dull conversations behind store counters into witless farce on a movie set, comes from a married pair of American singer-songwriter performers, Michael Glover (writer-director) and Robyn Rosenkrantz (producer), who call themselves Bright Blue Gorilla.
There are hotel boats from Porto, but these seem mostly to be witless, Duplo-like affairs into which you're tightly packaged and drably excursioned.
When Odysseus visits Hades to consult the seer Tiresias in Book 11, he finds its inhabitants sunk into a witless oblivion, incapable of communicating with him until they drink from his libation of ram's blood.
Europe's witless lemming bankers poured into higher-yielding Greek debt, heedless of the dangers, believing the old truism, "government don't go bankrupt".
How their mother had run off into the woods, witless and mad, after their father's death.
Tomorrow's budget statement will be a short term fix aimed at trying to avert the demise of the Labour party as a credible political force rather than an attempt to get Britain out of the excrement Gordon Brown and his witless colleagues have dragged it into.
