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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7K-kaelQEs Norm Macdonald, the comedian whose mischievous glint and deadpan style carried him to success as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, died on Tuesday at the age of 61 years old. Unknown to the public, Macdonald had endured a nine-year battle with cancer. His friend and production partner Lori Jo Hoekstra confirmed his death, saying: 'He was most proud...

★★★★ (4 out of 4 stars) - Instead Renoir produced a bawdy comedy with French airs and graces, which seems to share much in common with so many American films of the late thirties with their loose morals, gender distortions, and hedonistic flushes of romance. The inspirations may have been Marivaux and Beaumarchais, but in style and temperament The Rules of the Game rubs up equally alongside The Philadelphia Story and the screwball comedies of Howard Hawks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGjO5YevKgE Could there be anything more stomach-churning than the thought of standing up to sing at the funeral of a loved one? The concept collides that which we fear most: death with all of its attendant grief and more daunting still, the art of public performance. Yet that's precisely the task faced by Tim Robinson at the end of the fourth...