Perhaps his best-known motion picture in America is Brain Donors, the 1992 update of the comedy classic A Night at the Opera, starring Smith as a cheeky, opportunistic cab driver turned ballet promoter.

The film was his first major studio picture, and was only moderately successful, but through it he was still able to secure funding for Evil Dead III, which was retitled Army of Darkness and turned away almost totally from horror in favor of fantasy and comedy elements.

Hawn's career slowed down after leaving Hollywood in the late 1980s, but revived somewhat in 1990 with the action comedy Bird on a Wire, a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson.

Sponsored by the Caravan Trade & Industries Association " Caravan Holiday " was completed by early 1972 and released in cinemas across Australia as a supporting feature to Peter Bogdanovich's hugely popular US comedy picture What's Up, Doc?

The 1977 comedy film Fun With Dick and Jane is generally considered her " comeback " picture.

Typically, an Astaire picture would include a solo performance by Astaire — which he termed his " sock solo "— a partnered comedy dance routine, and a partnered romantic dance routine.

However many film critics marveled at her new skill with low comedy, and Life magazine called her " the surprise of the picture.

His love of language influenced many of his comedy routines-for example one otherwise fairly routine joke began with the line " I was vouchsafed this vision by a pockmarked Lascar in the arms of a frump in a Huddersfield bordello ..." He was also a master of painting a beautiful word picture and then letting the audience down with a bump: " The other day I was gazing up at the night sky, a purple vault fretted with a myriad points of light twinkling in wondrous formation, while shooting stars streaked across the heavens, and I thought: I really must repair the roof on this toilet.

In 1996, Feldman directed his first and thus far only motion picture, a slapstick comedy called ' Busted ' where Haim played a leading role.

Originally intended to be a dark cautionary tale about class and prostitution in Los Angeles, this motion picture was reconceived as romantic comedy with a large budget.

In 1949 he had a small role opposite Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane and Chili Bouchier in John Harlow's comedy picture, Mother Riley's New Venture, although his name was misspelt on the credits as " Le Meseurier ".

" Similarly, journalist Matt Taibbi has said of Friedman's writing that, " Friedman came up with lines so hilarious you couldn't make them up even if you were trying – and when you tried to actually picture the ' illustrative ' figures of speech he offered to explain himself, what you often ended up with was pure physical comedy of the Buster Keaton / Three Stooges school, with whole nations and peoples slipping and falling on the misplaced banana peels of his literary endeavors.

The film was to be the first full-length, six-reel motion picture comedy.

Discussing the film's origins, Henson explained that he and Froud " wanted to do a lighter weight picture, with more of a sense of comedy since Dark Crystal got kind of heavy-heavier than we had intended.

Back Street ( 1941 ) came first, and, as Universal had been urging her to do a light comedy, Appointment for Love ( 1941 ) would be Sullavan's last picture with that company.

In 1910, at Horsley's Centaur Film Company, Christie began turning out one single reel of a Mutt and Jeff comedy picture every week.

The film won the Golden Globe award for best picture in the musical or comedy category, and Susan Hayward won the Golden Globe award for leading actress in a musical or comedy.

He first appears as the picture in hand with R. K. Maroon in Maroon's Office, and later appears as the masks of tragedy and comedy on the keystone of the entrance to Toontown.

She objected to the film's production numbers that, she said, turned a village festival into " an extended opera bouffe peopled by musical comedy characters ," but still told the New York Times that it was " a valuable and true picture which tells a good deal of the truth about fascism.

The group toured and Salt went on to co-star in the motion picture comedy Who's the Man ?.

Eggar starred in the comedy Walk Don't Run ( 1966 ) with Cary Grant in his last picture and Jim Hutton, father of actor Timothy Hutton.

Joseph Breen, who ran the Office, worried that " there will be serious difficulty in inducing an anti-Semitic public to accept a picture play produced by an industry believed to be Jewish in which the Passion Play is used for comedy purposes.

Today my objection to playing comedy is that it is so often misunderstood by the audiences, both in the theater and in the picture houses.

The sketch comedy show helped launch the careers of male comedians / actors Jim Carrey ( then credited as " James Carrey "), one of only two Caucasian members of the original cast, Jamie Foxx, who joined the cast in the third season and David Alan Grier ( an established theatre actor, who had worked in Keenen Ivory Wayans ' 1988 motion picture I'm Gonna Git You Sucka ).

Another picture in the same collection appears to be a replica of his painting of the " Allegory of Calumny ", as suggested by Lucian's description of a celebrated work by Apelles ; the satire in the original painting, directed against some of his courtier enemies, was the immediate cause of Zuccari's temporary exile from Rome.

Other political caricatures include: Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis, a picture in which Pitt, so often Gillray's butt, figures in a favourable light ; The Bridal Night ; The Apotheosis of Hoche, which concentrates the excesses of the French Revolution in one view ; The Nursery with Britannia reposing in Peace ; The First Kiss these Ten Years ( 1803 ), another satire on the peace, which is said to have greatly amused Napoleon ; The Hand-Writing upon the Wall ; The Confederated Coalition, a swipe at the coalition which superseded the Addington ministry ; Uncorking Old Sherry ; The Plumb-Pudding in Danger ( probably the best known political print ever published ); Making Decent ; Comforts of a Bed of Roses ; View of the Hustings in Covent Garden ; Phaethon Alarmed ; and Pandora opening her Box.

In the second half of the fifteenth century stands in the field of dialect literature Gian Giorgio Allioni of Asti, poet, playwright and writer who knowing poetry in French and Italian, wrote several farces in dialect, expressing " an Astezan " and providing a vivid picture of customs and life of the period and the Italian theater of the sixteenth century, often steeped in satire and mockery.

* Herr Wolf kam nie nach Berchtesgaden-Ein Gedankenspiel in Wort und Bild ( satire & picture cycle Berchtesgadener Panoptikum by Peter Karger ) 2012, ISBN ISBN 978-3-8482-1375-7

Scott was parodied in the satire publication The Onion in 1999, in which a picture was edited to show her holding a Daytime Emmy ( that year, Susan Lucci won the Emmy after 19 nominations ).

" Meyer's intention was for the film to " simultaneously be a satire, a serious melodrama, a rock musical, a comedy, a violent exploitation picture, a skin flick and a moralistic expose ( so soon after the Sharon Tate murders ) of what the opening crawl called ' the oft-times nightmarish world of Show Business.

It paints an ironic picture of regimental life in the British Army and is a satire on the wasteful and perverse bureaucracy of modern warfare.

Douglas ' last picture for Roach was the Nazi satire The Devil with Hitler ( 1942 ).

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

Literal flatness now tends to assert itself as the main event of the picture, and the device boomerangs: the illusion of depth is rendered even more precarious than before.

If you look at a reading meant for someone else, you will probably see that many of the items could be considered as applicable to you, even when you were not in the picture at all!!

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

Now, the picture is clouded, and even US Sens. James O. Eastland and John C. Stennis, who remained loyal to the ticket, are uncertain of their status.

On the contrary, even in the heart of `` the Bible belt '' itself, as can be attested by any one who is called to work there, the industrial and technological revolutions have long been under way, together with the corresponding changes in man's picture of himself and his world.

In some extreme cases, even a picture or a realistic drawing of a spider can also trigger fear.

Arachnophobia can be triggered by the mere thought of a spider or even by a picture of a spider in some cases.

The F-14D entered service with the JTIDS that brought the even better Link-16 datalink " picture " to the cockpit.

Given this influence, it is unfortunate that many of the details of his life remain shrouded in mystery, perhaps forever ; even the only known picture of him, shown above, is heavily retouched, with a fake tie painted in by hand.

He stated that " the fact that my name and address along with my picture can appear on the front of the papers before the so-called ' victim ' has even signed a statement proves that anonymity for rape defendants is a must and that the law must be changed.

However, about 80 % of his plays have been lost and even the extant plays don't present a fully consistent picture of his ' spiritual ' development ( for example, Iphigenia at Aulis is dated with the ' despairing ' Bacchae, yet it contains elements that became typical of New Comedy ).

Raymond Brown contends that " The Johannine picture of a savior who came from an alien world above, who said that neither he nor those who accepted him were of this world, and who promised to return to take them to a heavenly dwelling could be fitted into the gnostic world picture ( even if God's love for the world in could not ).

The overall picture of continuity suggests this was not accompanied by any substantial movement of population ; crucially, only a single Hallstatt burial is known from Britain, and even here the evidence is inconclusive.

A picture showing scratches on the readable surface of a CD-R. Music and data CDs are coded using error correcting codes and thus can still be read even if they have minor scratches using error detection and correction.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

There is a difference between a letterboxed recording ( or other source ) and a letterboxed picture, as a letterboxed recording will appear letterboxed on every screen – even one that has the same aspect ratio as the source content – while a letterboxed picture may be produced from a non-letterboxed source, in which case it will appear full-screen on a suitably wide display.

The ability to cut the picture / video separately from the sound / audio allows the sound from the various takes to flow smoothly, even though the picture cuts are at different places.

More specifically, a motion picture manuscript is called a screenplay ; a television manuscript, a teleplay ; a manuscript for the theatre, a stage play ; and a manuscript for audio-only performance is often called a radio play, even when the recorded performance is disseminated via non-radio means.

Moreover, even if in the Schrödinger picture the Hamiltonian does not depend on time, e. g., in the interaction picture it does, at least, if V does not commute with, since