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‘Love & Friendship’ & Tiny Green Balls: Tom Bennett On Playing the Fool
Part of the fun of any Whit Stillman film is watching the characters negotiate around a comedy of manners. But even more fun, apparently, is watching a character barrell through social courtesy altogether, like a bull in a (very polite) china shop. To wit (or Whit): Tom Bennett, who plays the buffoonish Sir James Martin in Stillman’s upcoming Jane Austen adaptation, Love & Friendship. Like a cross between Ricky Gervais and Colin Firth, Mr. Bennett--an Austenite name if there ever was one-- is pea-brained Punchinello who nevertheless manages to steal the entire show with his casual observations about “the twelve commandments.”
Christopher Guest Directed That Groupon Ad [Watch]
Anyone who was paying attention during last night’s Super Bowl was surprised for fifteen seconds that a pro-Dalai Lama advocacy
