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To me, the funniest comedians by far, chiefly because much of their humor is linguistic in nature, are the Two Ronnies (Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett), whose TV appearances came to an end early in 1988 with Barker's announced retirement to run a business in antiques, for which he doubtlessly acquired a taste from Benny Hill's jokes.
Some critics are fascinated by the new possibilities opened up by this license and call the film "one of the more original movies of the year" (David Denby, New York ). Others are uneasy about the intimate, sad, and somewhat mocking portraits that emerge of these deeply flawed and lonely individuals and call the film "depressing and undeniably cruel" (Anita Gates, the New York Times ). (Read Slate 's David Edelstein on Barker's quest for "larger dramatic truths."
Barker might have crafted his subjects' monologues from their own words, but he has robbed them of their spontaneity--and, thus, of their essence.
Barker’s glossary of pachuco words from Arizona shows that the name Califa, without the s, was used to mean a boy from California.
It can appropriate pieces of its victims' anatomies in an effort to reconstitute itself (an idea cribbed from Clive Barker's 1987 Hellraiser --but less gorily executed, for the sake of a kiddie-friendly PG-13).