Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Strange? Certainly, but not in the same alienating manner that disturbed many viewers of Fargo. The lighthearted Big Lebowski dotes upon its ragtag hero and has a generous heart behind the veneer of its lowlife comic weirdness...
TIME's story on the Hollywood Free World Association v. the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals indicates no editorial preference for either organization but reveals in comic style an anti-Hollywood bias. We film-makers realize our community is a gorgeous subject for satire. We grant, or anyway most of us do, that we are the world's funniest people. You can write more jokes about us than you can about plumbers, undertakers or Fuller brush salesmen. Hollywood is guilty of deliberate withdrawal from the living world. It seeks to entertain, and we suspect that...
DIED. HENNY YOUNGMAN, 91, motormouth comic who was once clocked at 250 one-liners in 45 minutes; in New York City. One favorite standby: "Take my wife--please!" (See Eulogy below...
...published a comic novel called Floater that was set in an unnamed newsmagazine. I shouldn't have been surprised at how often I was asked about the extent to which my fictional magazine was really TIME, where I had worked for a few years in the early '60s. Instead of the conventional disclaimer, after all, Floater began with a claimer: "The character of Andy Wolferman is based on John Gregory Dunne, though it tends to flatter. The other characters are fictional...
Even if I'd known how to write serious fiction, a comic novel would have been the natural form for me to use in recalling that era. Looking back, it seemed so entertaining--all those people in that two-floor hothouse. In the haze of my memory, TIME Edit sometimes floats by as an extended country weekend, enlivened by the fact that some of the guests don't get along absolutely perfectly. It's brought to mind when I hear literary-conference phrases like "the solitary life of a writer" or "the lonely craft of writing." At TIME Edit, loneliness...