Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THC: Where were you when this character first came to you?
MS: I was actually at NYU drama school, and I was doing a show called The Follies, a fun comedy show. I had never even done comedy before and Adam Sandler was in the show because he went to NYU with me, and when we were rehearsing we did this...
THC: Was physical comedy ever big for you? Or did you develop that as you developed the character?
Hollander's argument for why fashion matters is the same argument people sometimes still make about literature; in her excellent Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (1994), she writes, "The important imaginative function, the spiritually enlarging character of fashion, is often blindly ignored so as to paint fashion...
Anyone who has ever worn a Peter Pan collar, written an apology note and then copied it over 100 times, or cringed in fear at the ire of Sister Mary knows that the Catholic school experience is excellent fodder for comedy. Perhaps this explains the inherent humor in the character...