Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smilingly backhand reader or character into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland...
Martin Lawrence says out loud the things most people are too shy to write even on bathroom walls, and young America loves him for it. The 28-year-old comic has a naughty new comedy album titled Talkin' Shthat's on Billboard magazine's best-seller chart. He's the host of HBO's stand-up-comic showcase Def Comedy Jam, a program that has become the proving ground for a new generation of Richard Pryor wannabes. He is also the star of Fox-TV's Martin, a black-themed slapstick sitcom that is one of the top-rated shows...
...stop singing soul songs. A runny-nosed child with an MIA mother. An extension-wearing, finger-snapping round-the-way girl from across the hall. Martin is a post- Cosby Show farce, a show for the I-am-not-a-role-model Age of Charles Barkley, a comic romp that puts the "id" back in video. Says Lawrence: "If I can get away with it, and it's something that happens in life, I go with...
...life," he confides, suddenly as gooey as a Gummi Bear. Then he recovers and in a flash works up the good-natured energy he displays on his sitcom. "But I still love the ladies. Martin loves the ladies!" He's too busy to be too serious. He's a comic on the laugh track to stardom...
Glittering on the horizon are Carousel, in a staging that is already a hit in London, and Damn Yankees, now a smash at San Diego's Old Globe Theater. Both concern the collision of the supernatural and the everyday, the former with tragic dimensions and the latter with bawdily comic ones. Carousel has been reimagined in its physical production; Yankees, full of passe baseball references and bygone mores between men and women, has undergone a revamping of its book. Both have the potential to make the best possible case for revivals: they are far better than anything new that...