Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Theresa's chatty friend, Lucienne Lester has the misfortune of playing a completely superfluous character. Still, her comic energy and annoyingly fake southern accent liven up an otherwise dreary second act. The most skilled actor of the four, McDonald brings focus and commitment to her role. Although she quickly establishes the character of a tightly-coiled middle-age career woman, McDonald appears too late in the play. And her character's final confrontation with her daughter is so unconvincingly written as to be almost unwatchable...
Seen simplistically and from afar, Saddam Hussein comes across as a figure seldom found outside the pages of comic books or pulp fiction: the villain who will stop at nothing, an Arab Dr. No alive and menacing in the Middle East. Some are content to leave it at that. The demonizing of Saddam has escalated along with the war and seems omnipresent in the West. Last week the op-ed page of the New York Times ran a David Levine drawing titled The Descent of Man. Running from left to right were representations of Clark Gable, a gorilla, a chimpanzee...
Disney was No. 1 in market share last year, but the studio's profits hit a three-year low. Katzenberg's prescription: smaller budgets and fewer films like Dick Tracy, last summer's comic-book extravaganza starring Beatty and Madonna that cost an estimated $100 million to make and market. While the movie has grossed nearly $200 million in theaters worldwide, Katzenberg complains that it has "static" characters who fail to evolve, and he suspects that it was not worth the expense or the 10 years of development effort. "Thanks to the dictates of the blockbuster mentality," he writes...
Dick Tracy Warren Beatty and a brilliant crew turn comic-strip art into glamorous movie artifice. This is not only a straightforward rendering of the story about the big-city dick with a right-angle jaw; it is also a tribute to the lithe, blithe entertainment that Hollywood once served up with style...
Biggest Turkey TV's most obnoxious chef is a would-be comic whose series appears on the Discovery Channel. Pasquale Carpino of Pasquale's Kitchen Express yowls snatches of operatic arias as he demolishes eggplants and describes his recipes in a tootsie-frootsie accent that was barely funny when Chico Marx used...