Word: comical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murphy, John Ducey and Valerie Mulhern, who play the imaginary husband, brother and daughter respectively get funnier as the show loses its comprehensibility. Their comic timing is especially good in the puppeteer scenes, where these apparitions induce Susan to do their bidding...
...real" Lucy was the star-struck onlooker, not the star. Yet, after Ball divorced Arnaz in 1960, the Lucy character also evolved into a capable single mother, then an independent and modestly successful career woman. Off- camera, Ball was happily remarried in 1961 to a courtly, protective ex- comic, Gary Morton, and took a keen maternal interest in the acting careers % of her daughter Lucie Arnaz and son Desi Arnaz Jr., both of whom got started on Here's Lucy...
Scandal, whose producers had to snip a few naughty bits from the Novotny orgy to avoid an X rating in the U.S., is wonderfully performed by Hurt (pained irony), McKellen (droll reserve) and, as Rice-Davies, Peter Fonda's daughter Bridget (comic acuity). The film names names and gets the tone right. ! This is a morally exhausted society, where every woman is a whore and every man a pimp or a trick until proved otherwise. It has no hero or heroine, only a victim: Stephen Ward, who loved trashy women and was betrayed by distinguished...
...Penal leagues. Now coming to bat: the veteran catcher on his last legs (Tom Berenger), the Willie Mays wanna-be (Wesley Snipes), the pampered third baseman (Corbin Bernsen). And on the mound, a fastballer (Charlie Sheen) with control problems on and off the field. With this gang, in this comic fantasy, the Tribe can't lose...
...body was found in a Hollywood hotel room in March 1982, the victim of a drug overdose at age 33, John Belushi became the subject of an inevitable barrage of media scavenging. First came the newspaper stories, detailing the cocaine and heroin abuse that led to the Rabelaisian comic's early death. Then a book, Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi, written by Watergate chronicler Bob Woodward. The tell-all tome implicated several of Belushi's Hollywood friends and associates for condoning, or at least ignoring, his self-destructive behavior...