Nevertheless, it only seems right to post a somewhat edited-down version of the piece, as amusing evidence of a weird mind meld between Brooks and myself, if nothing else.
"He was a very amusing person, " says his widow, Olivia, in a phone interview from Friar Park, the longtime Harrison residence in Oxfordshire, England.
And Bob Balaban has an amusing bit as a film critic without hope or enthusiasm.
Having found little of the first three, he apparently thought it amusing to invent a few islands en route.
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Some of this is fitfully amusing, but a loving re-creation of something tawdry is not all that different from the original.
In an amusing presentation at a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference, Mr Beattie offered a preview of some of his ideas.
The tour of Lockhart's classroom is amusing, with a photo gallery of the narcissistic one on his travels, dressed up in various guises.
It is admittedly amusing, and a bit creepy, to be the star of such a movie, seeing personal moments and good friends on screen.
The front row always like to kill a bit of time afterwards with a rather amusing goal kicking display but thankfully it has never been reproduced in a game.
With the film critic Glenn Kenny in an amusing turn as a lecherous guy who grades escort services on the Web, and the writer Mark Jacobson as a reporter interviewing Chelsea.
So here is an amusing picture of a cat.
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In fairness, it should be stated that there's a sweet, amusing sequence set in heaven, in which Reese Witherspoon plays the leader of a bunch of Valley Girl angels.
At least Miss O'Sullivan's biography is amusing, and takes a pleasantly sceptical view of Hollywood.
But to be honest, the story would be a bit amusing if not coming at this particular point in time.
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It all adds up to a fairly amusing car to thrash: punchy, willing, with sonorous notes from the induction and exhaust.
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There results were predictably amusing, but perhaps a bit depressing as well.
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Janeane Garofalo makes an amusing cameo appearance as a seen-it-all agent.
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There are some sharp scenes about Hollywood ruthlessness, and a few amusing cameos from such luminaries as Martin Scorsese and James Cameron, who apply to the Muse for help.
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When the novel came out in Paris, from a different publisher, Morini had already made his fourth and fifth films, a conventional but engaging French detective story and a turkey about a supposedly amusing family vacation in Saint-Tropez.
The victims include a Joseph Losey-like director (played with amusing snap by Martin Scorsese) and a Dorothy Comingore-like actress (Patricia Wettig, in a stupefying histrionic exhibition).
Abe Goldfarb, a Wadjet Eye regular who voices Batra, is also handed an intermittently amusing but slightly bewildering role as a Broadway-loving janitor, whose schtick rather gums up the works of the first major set of puzzles to be solved.
Well, an organisation called Founders Forum has come up with a clever and amusing method.
He is given a couple of amusing lines, though, and he never made me flinch.
We spent a few moments amusing ourselves by adding comedy facial accoutrements to the onscreen protagonist.
Someone has to be the raconteur, the one who shares anecdotes in a skillful, amusing and engaging manner.
Amusing fact turned up in a survey of teenagers by Allstate: 12.8% admit to having read or written text messages while driving.
Delivered in spare and amusing prose, Design Is a Job is a book to be judged not by its cover, but by its spine.
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