Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a loyal fan of Lynn Johnston's comic strip "For Better or For Worse' ever since I started reading newspapers. I've suffered with her cartoon family through puberty, braces, glasses, a new baby, and teenage smoking. No matter what the problem, be it loud music or alcoholism, Johnston has proven herself a competent, sensitive writer on a wide variety of family issues...
...first gay character to appear in a major syndicated family comic, Lawrence is naturally the focus of much controversy...
...otherwise kittenish and cloying Broadway debut of Mary Steenburgen, an Oscar winner for Melvin and Howard. But the real joy is watching fellow film star Robert Sean Leonard (Dead Poets Society, Swing Kids) as her coltish adolescent admirer. He brings quiet reality to the most extravagant talk and gawkily comic gestures and makes one think the play should be called, after him, Marchbanks...
EMMA THOMPSON LAUGHS -- A hearty, conspiratorial, practiced laugh -- as she listens gleefully to an American telling her that her comic sex scene with Jeff Goldblum in The Tall Guy was shown on New York City's X-rated cable show Midnight Blue...
...always thought of Emma as our generation's Katharine Hepburn," says Martin Bergman, an English writer who wrote the Branagh-Thompson Peter's Friends with his wife, the U.S. comic Rita Rudner. Bergman cites "the poise, the professionalism, the ability to perform comedy or drama with equal skill, the ability to create female characters we know and recognize, and whose personalities begin with their minds rather than their cleavage...