Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professional level it is so unacceptable, for a judge who is presiding over a murder where two people lost their lives in the most gruesome and horrible fashion, and where a third person has his life on the line, to bring the lawyers into chambers to show them comic revues." Ito even told the lawyers Simpson jokes that he had heard. Says Neufeld: "As someone who has tried cases for 20 years, I found it deplorable, and I was shocked...
Whether this apocalypse has been dragging on all this time is unclear. You'll just have to ask Davis. "Greetings" reflects on life in the nineties through a mixture of comic monologues on politics and pop culture and short sketches about Davis' miserable love life. Just how the apocalypse, Thoreau and Davis' ex-'s all hang together never becomes clear but the jumble of thoughts does have a loose coherence. At least we know that Davis says we're in the midst of this apocalypse right now. Too many people meander through life with bad attitudes, and instead they should...
...Davis sounds naive it's because, for better or for worse, he affects it. Naivete would seem to be the last quality someone battling cynicism in the '90s would want to use, but Davis has selected it for his comic mode. The pretension of naivete merely says that even a chowderhead knows enough to hate Nixon. It also lets him approach his monologues after the fashion of Mr. Rogers by setting himself in his own room, speaking earnestly, changing his coat and addressing the audience as though they were close friends. It's something in between an allusion...
...born to a knockabout vaudeville family and quickly put on the stage. The lad toured with his family until 1917, when he entered films as second banana to Fatty Arbuckle. In 1920, Keaton left Arbuckle to make his own movies. The medium was still in its infancy; comics were pioneering the craft of making people laugh at moving images. Keaton, it turns out, knew it all-intuitively. His body, honed by vaudeville pratfalls, was a splendid contraption. And as a director, Keaton was born fully mature. He was just 25 then, and as eager to mine the potential for film...
Farces as a rule employ well-worn props. Even so, Moon over Buffalo has an especially familiar feel. To see it once is almost to see it twice, given how much daje vu is involved. You recognize this comic turn from Kiss Me, Kate, that one from a Preston Sturges film. But Ludwig has a gift for making the conventional convivial. Whether you know it or not, you have spent your share of mornings in '50s Buffalo. And you had a good time there...