Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behavior problem," Gaines told Maria Reidelbach, author of Completely Mad, "a nonconformist, a difficult child." What a surprise. Yet Gaines was born and raised (in New York City, of course) to be precisely who he became. His father had been a comic-book publisher in the '30s, and when young Bill took over the company after the war, he turned to lurid fun, producing a line of successful gore-and-monster comics that 1) subsidized less profitable publications in his stable, 2) inspired and influenced future horrauteurs from Stephen King to Wes Craven and George Romero, and 3) were...
...lose the kid), but his heart is in the right place (he feels terrible about it). When Homer loses his job at the nuclear power plant, Marge tells the kids they will have to pitch in to help save money. Bart volunteers to skip baths and read his comic books in the store rather than buy them. Talk about family spirit...
...people who are conscious that they haven't seen it yet. In all Broadway history, no hit has been more distinctively New Yorkish than the show gloriously revived at the Beck, Guys and Dolls, a self-proclaimed "fable" that romanticizes * hoods and hustlers, touts and troublemakers, into cuddlesome comic delights. It turns mean streets, back alleys, even subway tunnels into twinkly urban oases of robust energy and delight...
...probably the last thing Riggs (Mel Gibson) needs to worry about. The last thing the makers of LETHAL WEAPON 3 worried about was a complex story -- it's simply about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added Rene Russo as the love interest for Riggs -- a policewoman as crazily brave as he is -- and made a cheerfully amoral movie that cannily caters to and satirizes our passion for cinematic violence...
Obviously they are made for each other, class distinctions be damned. And the two actors (who are married in real life) are awfully good together. He's stubborn, hot tempered and a survivor; she's all high spirits and willfulness, and they both know how to find the comic side of those traits, because, starry glamour aside, they are resourceful actors. Determined to avoid an arranged marriage to Stephen (Thomas Gibson), the very steward who is the source of Joseph's troubles, Shannon runs away to America, taking Joseph along as her servant...