Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Entertaining, ironic, instructive, passionate and comic, Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a required cultural experience, whether or not you are familiar with the novel...
...Peter Sellars, who adopts the multiple personas of the playright Clare Quilty, serves as the foil and conscience to Humbert. The very fact that Humbert is wholly unaware of Quilty's strange reappearances and sinister ways adds comic touches to the film and signifies his total unconsciousness of the gravity of the situation in which he is immersed...
...playing a thinly disguised version of herself. Jeanne Smoot and Erin Scott sometimes seemed stilted as they attempted to appear matronly. Leslie Yahia was too hyperactive to be convincing as an angry and burnt out single mother. All of the women were far more real when they were delivering comic lines than when trying to confront serious issues in their characters' lives...
...seems to be enjoying his latest venture, theMr. T and the T-Force comic books: "We going toGermany, we going to Japan, we taking the booksevery-where, like Star Trek say, we going where noman never gone before, we taking books where booksnever gone before. We sending the book to MikeTyson, we sending the book to Leona Helmsley.B-10New ComicsFrom the comic book, "Mr. T and the TForce." Mr. T sheds tears over a victim of crackaddiction...
...flashbacks in this mag don't stop here. B.A. Baracus is back and in this week's Scrutiny. He's 41!! years old, tough, and tender. He talked dining utensils, comic books, and Gary Coleman with Dan Sharfstein. We're pretty psyched and hope...