Ray (played by writer-director Scott Ryan) is the subject of this witty, pitch-black mockumentary, in which an increasingly in-over-his-head documentarian (Massimiliano Andrighetto) follows around the man Melbourne's underbelly turns to when they need someone "disappeared".
With turf wars brewing from New York to Brazil, Mason has armed himself with 250 salespeople and 70 writers, many plucked from the Chicago improv scene, to concoct witty pitches for deals.
Meryl Streep's Arkadina is a vivacious and steely bundle of smug competitiveness, and her witty characterization is pitched a little broader than it would be indoors.
Whether it's the charm of his candor, the confidence exuded by his high pitch, his witty intonation or simply his overall prosody, it's hard to say, but there's something about Irving Blum that captivates his audience (large or small, intimate conversation or public forum).
The difference, the researchers say, was in the pitch itself: narcissists were more enthusiastic, witty, and charming all traits, according to past research, that people associate with creativity.
Telus has a strange infatuation with bunnies; rather than a witty British gecko or a cereal loving bee pitch their product, Telus just stuffs a bunch of fuzzy-wuzzies on the screen and calls it a day.
One of the pleasures of this latest book by the Romanian-born Badescu and Chaud, a Parisian, is that although it is witty and occasionally profound, it doesn't feel pitched at adults.
Because come on: that set of sentence fragments isn't a sales pitch for an intelligent, female-led, tight and witty modern comedy; it's a halfwitted Facebook status.
Balanchine was more witty than funny, Ashton more sweet, while Mr. Taylor's modern-dance comedies are usually pitch-black.
In 2004, for example, the Texas Rangers pitcher Frank Francisco chose to hurl a metal folding chair, rather than a witty rejoinder, at a couple of Oakland Athletics fans who were riding him; this particular wild pitch got him arrested.
