Gained In Translation

I'm fascinated with Japan. I like Scarlett Johannson. However, if Bill Murray hadn't fallen off the exercise machine, I'm not sure I would love Lost In Translation so deeply, maybe not even at all.

I'm sure that's got to be frustrating for a mature actor like Murray. He's been around for thirty years, and here I am crediting him for a dumber pratfall than he ever had to do when he was a kid on Saturday Night Live.

But I love him for that level of humility. Sometimes, I think that's what great comedy is: human frailty, and someone brave enough to be naked about it.

Comedy has become such a small word. It hasn't been the right size since Dante.