Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tiger catcher Bill Freehan set the scene for the whole tragi-comic affair by bouncing a freak single off the third base bag. Red Sox starter Ray Culp. who had pitched out of jams in the first and second innings, dug himself in again by walking Jim Northrup...
Approve or disapprove the comic Academy Awards, it is still necessary to remember that the award given to Mike Nichols was not given for being born in America, does not disbar former nightclub comedians, and has nothing to do with the shape of a man's face. Lillian Hellman
This Smurtz is specifically a walking directorial comment, carrying a special and limited message: behind these three acts of comic and pathetic folly are the forces of materialism and cultural prostitution. Shuman does his turn admirably. Looking for all the world like an afternoon at the Broadway Super-Market, he graphically mimes both pain and self-absorption. But at the point in the third act when he and Hamlin finally stand face to face, no amount of individual stagecraft can forestall the recognition that they are acting in different plays. Hamlin, for better or whose, is playing a text about...
...German-born former nightclub comic with puffy cheeks acknowledged himself to be best director, to a mixture of catcalls and sobs from the home audience...
...GREAT comic plots, whatever the media, employ a superstructure of sometimes infinite complexity resting on a few simple premises and motivations. Through an induced preoccupation with the superstructure rather than the foundation, consequences many times removed from their causes are made to combine almost chemically into a facade which distracts from and undercuts the basic confict, ultimately vanishing with great speed and leaving the conflict solved. The effect is that of an unforgivably mixed metaphor which on second glance--and, therefore, also on the glance of the subconscious--reduces itself to a gut consistency. Hence satisfaction...