Word: comic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well known in the comic-book industry that Captain America was created, originated, authored and drawn by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby and not Stan Lee as your article [Feb. 5] suggests...
When a comedian makes a film, audiences come to the theater planning to laugh their heads off. Such expectations are best set aside by moviegoers who venture to see Real Life. Comic Albert Brooks' first feature is not as dark as Interiors, but neither is it designed as a hoot. What Brooks has wrought is a scrupulously honest satire: a film that sacrifices compulsive jokiness in the effort to reveal the nasty truth about its subject, TV's slice-of-life documentaries. Real Life is funny when it wants to be and stubbornly thoughtful the rest...
Life is a fictional movie about a real-life comic recording the "real life" of fiction al characters. Does that make sense...
...tone was humorous and self-deprecating. She liked playing the country bumpkin, sprinkling her language with "ain'ts" and "naws." Pomposity of all stripes put her on guard. When a pen pal confessed she felt uneasy about corresponding with a celebrity, Flannery reassured her that fame is "a comic distinction shared with Roy Rogers's horse and Miss Watermelon of 1955." Outside of writing and reading, her chief activity was raising birds, and she regaled everyone with anecdotes about them, especially her beloved peacocks: "I used to say I wanted so many of them that every time...
...They call themselves holy but holiness costs and so far as I can see they pay nothing." She was proper but not prudish. "All these moralists who condemn Lolita give me the creeps," she noted. "I go by the notion that a comic novel has its own criteria...