Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also offers a delicious send-up of the contemporary passion for exotic culinary experiences and an equally wicked satire of the grander pretenses of cinema scholarship. The latter is an occupation that director Bergman, who has a Ph.D. in cultural history, narrowly escaped by turning to more self-consciously comic forms (he wrote The In-Laws and the play Social Security...
...this, and Bert Parks in a sombrero, warbling Tequila. Pretty rich. And though it's hard to say if old Bert knows he's being funny, the other actors do know, and joyously strut their best comic stuff. As Carmine's nephew, who arranges his meeting with Clark, Bruno Kirby redefines the combined bluster, sleaze and obsequiousness of the typical New York City fringe dweller. Maximilian Schell is in high, black humor as a madly galloping gourmet chef (you don't want to think too hard about his plans for that dragon). And Paul Benedict's pomposity, pretentiousness and venality...
...bride-to-be Betsy, in bed beside his wife, played by the hilarious Madeline Kahn. He is having a nightmare, and wakes clutching her in fear. Hopper's frequent flights of fancy are whimsically depicted in the film, and Alda is a master of whimsy. But Alda's comic touch is surest when Hopper's line between fact and fantasy blurs...
Younger males approached the theater with less trepidation than Boudreau. They unabashedly looked forward to a fresh routine from Clay, the controversial standup comic whose act has been labelled, among other things, sexist, racist and homophobic...
...person takes Andrew Dice Clay seriously, he's an idiot," said a student at Northeastern who identified himself only as Brian. "He's only a comic and he's doing what he believes in. It's a crude comedy, but no one can stop...