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The screenwriter, Curtis, began his career with the hilariously acrid BBC sitcom Black Adder before writing The Tall Guy (1989) and Four Weddings and a Funeral --a movie that irked me, possibly because Grant passed up the alluringly neurotic Kristin Scott Thomas for the vapidly bovine Andie MacDowell, possibly because its dizzy romantic badinage was interrupted for easy pathos involving a fatal heart attack and other real-world calamities.
The forces of nature are supposed to avoid any multibillion-dollar calamities such as the recent Grand Forks, N.D., flood.
Or, for that matter, what of cartoons themselves, which are filled with calamities without consequences?
In body and soul it has been difficult for celebrities in Tabloidland this month, with a surfeit of romantic calamities, plastic surgery disasters, and urological deaths and rebirths.
USA Today leads with the various natural calamities plaguing the country right now: wildfires in Florida, thunderstorms in Maryland, and floods in New England.