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• No Joke! Ledger’s role is truly Oscar-worthy
Eschewing Jack Nicholson’s showboating and Cesar Romero’s hee-hee-ho-ho campiness, Ledger goes right for the heart of darkness, letting the Joker’s sick sense of humor come out of his actions and his wildly darting eyes. When he opens his mouth ...
• Dancing’ mirror ball likely to go to Lance
Audiences will also reward novelty and humor. Think of Drew Lachey’s “Thriller” paso doble , Joey Fatone’s “Star Wars” tango, and the treatment of people like Jerry Springer and George Hamilton. In fact, that Helio “yellow quickstep ...
• John Updike: Laureate of bad sex
She accepted the prize in good humor, saying, "I always wanted to win a literary award," and noting that previous winners include such literary heavyweights as Sebastian Faulks, Tom Wolfe and the late Norman Mailer. Mailer posthumously won last year's ...
• True Blood’ a well-timed hit for HBO
Ball kept the foreboding darkness expected in vampire stories, spiced up the sex and violence, mixed in humor and explored the theme of outsiders in society, he said. Boost in sales of books The novels are centered on Stackhouse, so Ball said he had to ...
• No joke, some patients laugh through treatment
They were taking part in the hospital's monthly "Strength Through Laughter" therapy. It is one of several types of laughter or humor therapy being offered by medical facilities around the country for patients diagnosed with cancer or other chronic ...