Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems unlikely that Janeane Garofalo will be singing the lyrics to the Brady Bunch song or otherwise manifesting media-savvy Gen-Xiness the next time she gets in front of the camera. The self-deprecating comic and star of the film The Truth About Cats & Dogs is tackling her first dramatic role in the gritty upcoming movie Copland. She will play a police officer who'd better not slack. Her partner? Sylvester Stallone...
...other literary extreme, Horatio Alger's heroes triumphed through trustworthiness, diligence and stupefying practicality. As usual, the truth about the business world lies somewhere between comic cynicism and Rotarian sentimentality, in a psychological wilderness area now artfully surveyed by Steven Millhauser's Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Crown; 294 pages...
...other times, however, Reinhard's intensity was almost comic in its magnitude...
Released in 1976, Leary continued to remain in the public eye as a stand-up comic, author and Hollywood party-goer...
...McInerney could have spent the rest of his career rewriting Bright Lights, Big City, a well-observed comic novel that caught a generational updraft and became either The Catcher in the Rye of the '80s or the Trout Fishing in America of the '80s, depending on your estimation (I would come down somewhere in between). His subsequent books didn't stray far from the urban high life, but with his fifth novel McInerney aims to limber up and take on something more ambitious...