Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bull sessions seem like a final they crammed for. "But Baumbach is canny enough to salt the stew with poignance, so that by the end these attitude machines have become human beings, more than the sum of their chiseled jokes. Baumbach is a find, of sorts: he has both comic sense and camera sense. Imagine Quentin Tarantino without the guns...
Gotlieb, however, shone as a true source of comic relief as August's hypochondria sister Delia, an acclaimed author with a scandalous history. Her character was supposed to be livelier than everyone else's during her scenes, and she realized her potential without being melodramatic. Neither she nor Lewis had many spoken lines, but they never tried to overshadow their fellow cast members. They slipped into their roles with a familiarity and understanding that was not reached by anyone else in the cast. Truly, Lewis's quiet but sharp one-liners and Gotlieb's outspoken, often obnoxious punch-lines brought...
...Gito The Ungrateful," one of the most popular African films in 1992, succeeds beautifully at providing a comic look at the dreams and harsh realities of one arregant man after be graduates from a French university and returns to Burundi confident be can become a cabinet minister. Gito (Joseph Kumbels) reminds one of Tom Cruise's arrogant Charlie Babbitt in "Rain...
...intimacy with women. What at first appears to be an interesting modification of the Oedipal arrangement--where feelings of hatred and jealousy towards the father are subsumed by Wallace's interactions with other women--turns out to be a cliched expression of childhood trauma. Granted, the play is a comic treatment of serious themes, but the fact that all of Wallace's relationships and potential flings are somehow tainted with his mother's blood is too convenient and unconvincing...
...formidable obstacle posed by the script did not completely hinder director Bridger McGaw '97 respectable show. Well-cast as Wallace, Jed Silverstein gave a seasoned and (at rare moments) touching perfromance. With a mix of stand-up comic swagger and adolescent noxiousness, Silverstein breathed life into Wallace's character and kept him marvelously alive throughout. Becca Lowenhaupt is memorable as the wise, heavily-accented Jewish grandmother, a stereotype people never seem to grow tired...