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Dell Cousins
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"that which does not satisfy"

I find it hard to believe that the second one isn't a joke. A very good joke at that! In fact, way funnier than anything to be found in a Tyler Perry movie!

A Mystery
Why is it that Perry looks so much more masculine when he's dressed up as Madea than he does when he's just hanging out being that doofus Tyler Perry???

Master Plaster Blaster Caster,

Joan Cusack
…is thirteen years older than Isla Fisher, and plays her mother.

Using them in earnest or bringing them up to ridicule them? All the same to me. Both are way past sell-by.

Oh! He did the Billy Joel thing!

My head hurts when I read
Rabin's faux-self-deflating "world o' literature."

Don't pass up "Mother Night." I currently regard it as his most cutting and mournful book. Anyone who knows him best from cheerier fare like "Breakfast of Champions" is in for a surprise.