I was trying to play it straight inside the character.
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Or do you play it straight down the middle of the fairway?
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Tonight, we raise our glasses to those who have to play it straight in sketches.
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"You play it straight because the straighter you go, then the jokes are even funnier," she said.
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So, faced with an impossible choice, they've done their best to play it straight down the middle.
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Why can't they play it straight, so unfair to the Republican Party and in particular, your favorite President!
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But sometimes, as one English couple learned earlier this month, it's probably better just to play it straight.
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Once on board, participants are supposed to play it straight and act like nothing's out of the ordinary.
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One thing was crystal clear as New York Fashion Week came to a close: designers didn't play it straight.
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"One of the things I absolutely insisted upon was that I was going to play it straight," he said.
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I'm an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses and I try to play it straight with people.
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Why not just play it straight from the beginning, letting viewers in on the secrets and then exploring what they mean?
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At a time when trust in America's political institutions is at historic lows, our government needs more people who play it straight.
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I'm here to play it straight for the American people and to protect my friend who is the President of the United States.
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Extremely Wicked is at its most interesting when it reaches Bundy's 1979 trail – but here, again, the film seems content to just play it straight.
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"I think he will play it straight," said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas and a close McConnell ally, who noted his party's narrow voting margin.
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The key is that, rather than use the casting for grotesquerie or sight gags, Erskine and Konkle just play it straight, drawing on memory and personal experience.
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Obama mentioned how in the past he had made more light-hearted efforts in trying to boost enrollment into ObamaCare, but said this year he decided to play it straight.
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Maybe one day Hollywood will realize this, cut the bullshit, and just play it straight again, releasing us from the meta hell of awards shows praising themselves even as they falter.
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The President is trying to play it straight with people which is why he has 224 or 125 social media followers because they want to hear it straight from the President.
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Now we learn that his cooperation was squirrelly and incomplete, a series of prevarications that obviously infuriated the prosecutors, who gave him one final 10-day chance to play it straight.
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The president is trying to play it straight with people, which is why he has 140 or 125 social media followers, because they want to hear it straight from the president.
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The latest iteration of this quadrennial review of America's changing climate, launched in 1990 by George H.W. Bush—the last Republican leader to play it straight on global warming—irked Donald Trump.
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The issue for any director of this musical is to decide whether to play it straight or adopt a tone of gentle irony in the face of a cascade of showbiz clichés.
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The humor of grown women masquerading as preteens while the actual preteens around them play it straight results in the physical silliness of Erskine and Konkle crushing on unattainable boys or facing the wrath of mean girls.
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ComfortThe majority of these headphones play it straight when it comes to overall design, with the headsets of Razer, HyperX, and Creative featuring large, closed-back leather earcups held together by a padded adjustable band on top.
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That is past a sprinter's typical peak, but Bolt — a tall man with a quick turnover; a clown at the starting line able to immediately play it straight once the gun goes off — is anything but typical.
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In 2012, with the keystone case that would determine the viability of ObamaCare having been argued before the court but still awaiting decision, Obama cautioned the court to "play it straight when it comes to the interpretation" of the statute.
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Rather than play it straight from here on out, he needs to gin up a new scandal every few days, because if one scandal, Ukraine for example, breaks through the noise then he is sunk; it will all come crashing down.
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"At a time when our politics are so polarized, at a time when norms and customs of political rhetoric and courtesy and comity are so often treated like they're disposable -- this is precisely the time when we should play it straight," he said.
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"I can certainly understand their frustration if the president is not going to play it straight, if he's going to ask us to appropriate all these funds and then turn around and use them for whatever his political project is," Durbin said.
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To be sure, those of us who followed McCain day in and day out tried to play it straight with every story, but it was impossible for McCain to escape the reality that Barack Obama generated the excitement and drew the giant crowds.
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As Jon himself later implies, he can't back down from it, even knowing that this exact same brand of play-it-straight honesty, this inability to play Westeros' game of lies and deceptions, is part of what got Ned killed in the first place.
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Director Ruben Fleischer and the writers elaborate on this theft, then play it straight into an impressively choreographed single-take (or, more likely, simulated single-take) slapstick zombie fight, with Eisenberg, Stone, Harrelson, and newcomer Rosario Dawson shooting and dodging through multiple rooms of a garishly decorated Elvis-themed motel.
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I tried to play it straight to avoid racking up a bad reputation (more on reputation, which is thankfully back in the franchise) later, but naval battles are an important part of many questlines and the sea is rife with pirates that don't care if you're not up for a fight.
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A lyric soprano with a voice as flexible as it is rich, she is also a fine actress whose instinctive feel for the Gilbert and Sullivan ingénue idiom — play it straight with just a sly wink peeking out from the batting eyelashes — makes her every scene and song a joy.
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McConnell to Obama: Democrats started the SCOTUS wars Through the process, Obama insisted upon strict privacy and level-headedness from the tight collection of aides who were tasked with compiling information about his options -- demanding they "play it straight," according to one participant, rather than submitting to the political furor that was mounting around the vacancy.
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"At a time when our politics are so polarized, at a time when norms and customs of political rhetoric and courtesy and comity are so often treated like they're disposable, this is precisely the time when we should play it straight," Mr. Obama told an audience that included Judge Garland's family, Democratic senators and liberal activists.
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October 14, 2010.Miller, David Lee. "Cuomo, Paladino Play it Straight in a 7-Candidate Free-For-All Debate in New York". Foxnews.com.
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You don't have time to grow tired of the looks or the actions of one girl, for example." Meyer used names of characters from his previous films, "except the girls are all called “Super” and they play it straight." Meyer said Supervixen wearing white was a tribute to The Postman Always Rings Twice. "She's good, pure.
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Writer Tim Minear says this episode is fundamentally about "body horror." Originally, it was written in a more comedic style, but Joss Whedon insisted the writers "should play [it] straight." Minear says this episode begins to show Wesley as being "more than he appeared to be on Buffy," as well as demonstrating that the members of Angel Investigations are forming a family.
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According to Nicholson, "I went in to the shoot knowing I had to be very quirky because Roger originally hadn't wanted me. In other words, I couldn't play it straight. So I just did a lot of weird shit that I thought would make it funny." According to Dick Miller, all of the dialogue between his character and Mel Welles was ad-libbed.
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Some tried to outlaw the volley and a discussion on its merits took place in The Field for weeks after the tournament. The final was followed by a play-off match for 2nd place between Marshall and Heathcote. The players could not fix another date for the match and decided to play it straight away. By agreement, the match was limited to best-of-three sets.
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In a contemporary review, Variety noted "a usefully chilly package deal which will offer audiences several mild shudders and quite a lot of amusement. Even though occasional giggles set in, the cast, headed by experienced horror practitioners such as Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Christopher Lee and Max Adrian, sensibly play it straight." Chris Coffel from Bloody Disgusting called the film "an Underrated Horror Anthology", and commended the film's cinematography.
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He died of a heart attack on July 28, 2003 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, following a performance that was part of his first tour performing comedy out of drag."Female impersonator could play it straight; Robert Timbrell also in films, TV 'He was a howl, he stole the show'". Toronto Star, August 11, 2003. Following his death, writer Jeffrey Round prepared and released a documentary film, Driving with Rusty.
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The Smothers Brothers Play It Straight is the ninth album by the Smothers Brothers (released February 15, 1966 on Mercury Records). As the title indicates, the folk comedy duo were singing the songs "straight" (well, "Almost"). Like the B-side of their second album, Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers, the recording was done in a studio instead of on stage. The album cover shows Tom standing with his guitar and Dick sitting on a stool with his bass lying behind him.
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The first day was strange’, said Larry, of the sessions. “because Chick and Billy and John had just come from…sessions with Miles. They had definitely been taking some different approaches to the music at that session, because when I threw down the first piece, “Tyrone” by Larry Young, the cats did not play it straight. They were all going into outer space…Almost nothing we played that first day made the cut: it seems as if we got most of the music that went on the record on the second day.
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Beginning with Tattooed Life, the studio issued Suzuki his first warning for "going too far". He responded with Carmen from Kawachi after which he was ordered to "play it straight" and had his budget slashed for his next film. The result was Tokyo Drifter, an "ostensibly routine potboiler" made into a "jaw-dropping, eye- popping fantasia". Further reduced to filming in black-and-white Suzuki made his 40th film in his 12 years with the company, Branded to Kill (1967), considered an avant-garde masterpiece by critics, for which Hori promptly fired him.
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In March 2017, two sisters who attend the college were ordered to remove their hair braids or face consequences by school staff. The sisters, of South Sudanese descent, pointed out that the braids were the healthiest and best way to manage their hair and refused to remove them.Hair's a key to 'identity' but black students are being told to play it straight The sisters accused the school of discrimination. Media coverage and public outcry resulted from the incident due to the school's perceived lack of racial sensitivity and understanding.
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Its relatively poor performance on the Hot 100 is most likely due to the track's controversial lyrics (including the word "bitch"), which prevented it from receiving radio airplay in much of the country. In 1989, the American rap act 2 Live Crew sampled "White Horse" heavily for their single "Get the Fuck Out of My House"; it was later sampled for Monifah's 1998 hit "Touch It". Laid Back's next two albums, Play It Straight (1985) and See You in the Lobby (1987), and singles such as "Abu Dhabi" and "Tricky Kind of Thing", were released to little fanfare and limited chart success.
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A major departure from Simon's previous lighthearted plays, The Gingerbread Lady was a dark drama with comic overtones centering on Evy Meara, a cabaret singer whose career, marriage, and health all have been destroyed by alcohol. Alvin Klein noted that "The play was Mr. Simon's first attempt to play it straight and serious."Klein, Alvin. "Theater in Review; 'Gingerbread Lady' Lacks Spice" The New York Times, December 20, 1981 Having just completed a ten-week stint in a rehab facility to overcome her addiction, she returns home to the welcome of friends with their own problems.
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Atkins, Ronald (February 19, 1999) "Play It Cool and Play It Straight". The Guardian. Music writer Dan Lander also stated that Byard's playing was ahead of its time, and added that it has influenced 21st-century pianists: > Byard's grasp and integration of historical forms, his ability to embrace > tradition and risk taking, was visionary, impacting on a new generation of > jazz musicians who understood the history of jazz as a material to build on > and work with, at the service of creating something new, rather than as an > unmovable weight, fixing them to the past.Lander, Dan (2010) "Jaki Byard".
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At the work out, Frado and Brendan tell Jillian they want to throw the weigh in so they can get Patrick on their team and send Anna home. Jillian gets very upset as she feels Anna needs to be on the ranch. She yells at them to play it straight and not throw the weigh in and they both agree. At the weigh the blue team loses a total of 62 lb with a percentage of weight loss of 3.16%, with Jesse's loss of 16 pounds being particularly impressive. The black team gets nervous seeing Jesse’s weight loss.
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Inspired by the colorful display, he executes a plan to get fired by doing everything he can think of to be irritating at work, from dressing in flashy suits to playing bagpipes in his office to not flushing the toilet after trips to the bathroom. Cliff finally fires Jimmy and tells him losing the signing bonus is worth it just to be rid of him. Jimmy approaches Kim and attempts to convince her to partner with him in their own law firm. Kim agrees, but only on the condition that Jimmy play it "straight and narrow".
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Wayne King, "Washington Talk: Presidential Politics; Why Kirkpatrick Says (Other) Women Should Run for Office", New York Times, Nov. 2, 1987 Derian ceaselessly pointed out that, when it comes to human rights, in terms of morality, credibility and effectiveness, "you always have to play it straight." Derian, who had headed an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights delegation in 1979 to investigate reports of widespread human rights abuses in Argentina, returned to Buenos Aires in 1985 to testify in the historic Trial of the Juntas. She was quoted in documents in the National Security Archive openly accusing military leaders of torture of prisoners at a meeting in Argentina in 1977.
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Tony Osoba (born 15 March 1947) is a Scottish actor best known for his role as Jim 'Jock' McClaren in the popular 1970s British sitcom Porridge alongside Ronnie Barker. He also appeared in its sequel Going Straight. Osoba was the first black Scottish actor to appear on primetime television when he appeared in the series.Porridge star Tony is back home to play it straight on stage Glasgow Evening Times, 27 September 2005 Since then, he has appeared twice in Coronation Street, first as Wesley McGregor in 1982, and secondly as Mike Baldwin's boss Peter Ingram for a few episodes in 1990, before the character was killed off.
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" Their final self-released full-length studio record, Nation found even more acclaim with critics than Field Rexx. PopMatters.com raved that "Wild Mountain Nation is indeed a rare gift—a music reviewer's dream come true." Pitchfork rated the record "Best New Music" and granted an 8.5-star review, stating, "Compared to their previous albums, Wild Mountain Nation has a newfound and audible confidence. It's the work of an assured band who can not only treat genre like so much fingerpaint, but brave enough to play it straight for a minute -- not as an empty exercise, but a chance to aspire ... Wild Mountain Nation is a revelation from beginning to end.
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118–119 Dan Blocker of the Bonanza western television series was approached to play the part, but according to Southern, Blocker's agent rejected the script as being "too pinko". Kubrick then recruited Pickens, whom he knew from his brief involvement in a Marlon Brando western film project that was eventually filmed as One-Eyed Jacks. His fellow actor James Earl Jones recalls, "He was Major Kong on and off the set—he didn't change a thing—his temperament, his language, his behavior." Pickens was not told that the movie was a black comedy, and he was only given the script for scenes he was in, to get him to play it "straight".
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Hector Bloom is a laconic, libidinous college basketball star distracted by obligations and current events: the misadventures of his volatile roommate Gabriel, a potential pro career, the draft, campus unrest, and a turbulent affair with Olive, the wife of Richard, a professor and friend. His coach pays special attention to him, given Hector's abilities, but is unsure how to get him to focus and fulfill his potential. Hector's attitude, and his coach's frustration, is exemplified by a meeting before an important late-season game where the coach instructs him to "play it straight out there tonight, I don't want any fooling around at all"; to his coach's exasperation, Hector replies "Why not?" Gabriel, a vulgar borderline psychotic, is far more troubled and committed to rebellion than Hector.
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