I went to college with Something About Mary's brother, Earl Brown, and still remember how excited he was when he told us he'd been accepted at Second City. I thought some of it was pretty funny--defibulating the dog, an absurd varitaion of the ball-off-the-balcony story Truman Capote liked to tell.

   Is Cameron Diaz really the image of innocence? She seems to really enjoy doing smut humor, that wiggly dance she always does, and likeably will try to sing even though she utterly can't. She seems to me more like a perfect clown-face of the high-school popular girl, with that streak of wide-grinning cruelty they had toward the others.