Word: comic
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Lane and Sabella, veterans of the Guys and Dolls revival on Broadway, make up in dynamite comic camaraderie what they may lack in marquee value. "I have no idea if they considered major motion-picture stars for our parts," says Lane pensively. "Do you suppose they were thinking of the Menendez brothers?" Lane loved the work, which involved mainly "acting silly for several hours and trying to make the directors laugh." Irons also enjoyed the spontaneity of the process. In animation, words come before pictures, so improvising actors help develop characters and dialogue. "It's extraordinary," Irons says...
...artist and a writer, except when I was 14 and wanted to be a baseball player." That aberration passed, and Stamaty went on to earn a fine-arts degree from Cooper Union in New York City. After illustrating several children's books in the 1970s, he produced comic strips for the Village Voice in New York. In 1981 he started Washingtoon in the Voice and the Washington Post, which eventually syndicated the strip nationally. He has since published two book-length collections of Washingtoon and has seen it become the basis for a cable-TV series in the 1980s...
...Four years later, the holiday jape All I Want for Christmas (My Two Front Teeth) sold 1.5 million copies in six weeks. Jones cinched his renown with a high-rated radio show and an exhaustive skein of one-night stands. Chester Gould and Al Kapp put him into their comic strips. Movies and TV beckoned. For a decade, Lindley Armstrong Jones was the maestro satirist of the Hit Parade -- and a crucial influence on such musicaliconoclasts as Stan Freberg, Ernie Kovacs, Tom Lehrer and Frank Zappa...
What made the team's disappointment all the greater was that its inability to fulfill expectations was not a cause of collective malaise so much as a series of bizarre incidents which seemed to be taken from a foul episode of the 60's comic mini-series "Bewitched...
...talking about an amusement park here, not Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Disney builds playgrounds for children -- loud, clangy, vulgar, kitschy playgrounds. One might as well denounce comic books for not being literature. Or Davy Crockett movies for vulgarizing Tennessee history -- and sentimentalizing bears. How many adult couples do you know who dress up, hire a sitter and head out for an evening at an amusement park? For that matter, how many adults do you know who frequent restaurants where teenagers, dressed in giant mouse outfits, snuggle up to them and offer a kiss for the camera...